Earl of Sandwich

Noble title in the Peerage of England

Earldom of Sandwich

Quarterly, first and fourth, Argent, three lozenges conjoined in fess Gules, within a border Sable; for Montagu. Second and third, Or, an eagle displayed Vert, beaked and membered Gules; for Monthermer.
Creation date12 July 1660
Created byCharles II
PeeragePeerage of England
First holderSir Edward Montagu
Present holderJohn Montagu, 11th Earl
Heir apparentLuke Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke
Subsidiary titlesViscount Hinchingbrooke
Baron Montagu of St Neots
Seat(s)Mapperton House, Dorset
Former seat(s)Hinchingbrooke House, Cambridgeshire
MottoPost tot naufragia portum ("After so many shipwrecks a haven")[1]
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl
Heraldic achievement of the Earls of Sandwich

Earl of Sandwich is a noble title in the Peerage of England, held since its creation by the House of Montagu. It is nominally associated with Sandwich, Kent. It was created in 1660 for the prominent naval commander Admiral Sir Edward Montagu. He was made Baron Montagu of St Neots, of St Neots in the County of Huntingdon, and Viscount Hinchingbrooke, at the same time, also in the Peerage of England. The viscountcy is used as the courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom. A member of the prominent Montagu family, Lord Sandwich was the son of Sir Sidney Montagu, youngest brother of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (from whom the Dukes of Manchester descend), and Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton (from whom the Dukes of Montagu descended).

He was succeeded by his son, the second Earl. He briefly represented Dover in the House of Commons and served as Ambassador to Portugal and as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire.

The second Earl's great-grandson was The 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was a prominent statesman and served as First Lord of the Admiralty and as Secretary of State for the Northern Department. Lord Sandwich is also remembered for sponsoring the voyages of discovery made by Captain James Cook, R.N., who named the Sandwich Islands in his honour, and as the namesake of the sandwich.

He was succeeded by his son, the fifth Earl. He sat as Member of Parliament for Brackley and Huntingdonshire and served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and as Master of the Buckhounds. His son, the sixth Earl, also represented Huntingdonshire in Parliament.

He was succeeded by his son, the seventh Earl. He held office in the first two Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Master of the Buckhounds and was also Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire. His eldest son, the eighth Earl, represented Huntingdon in the House of Commons as a Conservative and served as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire.

He was succeeded by his nephew, the ninth Earl. He was the son of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Victor Alexander Montagu, second son of the seventh Earl. Lord Sandwich was Member of Parliament for Huntingdon and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire.

His son, the tenth Earl, represented South Dorset in Parliament as a Conservative from 1941 to 1962, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and had to resign his seat in the House of Commons and enter the House of Lords. He disclaimed his peerages in 1964 but never returned to the House of Commons.

As of 2017[update], the titles are held by his eldest son, John Montagu, the 11th Earl of Sandwich, who succeeded him in 1995. Lord Sandwich is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sits as a cross-bencher.

Today the family seat is at Mapperton in Dorset.[2] From the 17th century until the 1960s, the family also owned Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdonshire, now a school, from which the title Viscount Hinchingbrooke was derived.

Some historical papers of the family and its Hinchingbrooke estate are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Huntingdon.

Earls of Sandwich (1660)

Arms of the Earls of Sandwich

The heir apparent is the present holder's elder son, Luke Timothy Charles Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (b. 1969), who is married to an American entrepreneur, Julie Jean Montagu, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke. The heir apparent's heir apparent is their elder son together, The Hon. William James Hayman Montagu (b. 2004).[4]

Family tree

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Montagu family tree— Manchester: Earls and Dukes, Montagu: and Earls and Dukes, and Monthermer: Viscounts and Marquesses
Edward Montagu
c. 1485–1557
Edward Montagu
c. 1530–1602
Baron Montagu of Boughton, 1621Viscount Mandeville and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton, of Kimbolton in the County of Huntingdon, 1620
Earl of Manchester, 1626
Edward Montagu
c. 1562–1644
1st Baron Montagu of Boughton
Henry Montagu
c. 1563–1642
1st Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Sidney Montagu
c. 1572–1644
Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, Baron Montagu of St Neots, of St Neots in the County of Huntingdon, 1660
Edward Montagu
1616–1684
2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton
Edward Montagu
1602–1671
2nd Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
George Montagu
1622–1681
Edward Montagu
1625–1672
1st Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Earl of Montagu and Viscount Monthermer, 1689
Duke of Montagu and Marquess of Monthermer (1st creation), 1705
Baron Halifax, 1700
Earl of Halifax (2nd creation) and Viscount Sunbury (2nd creation), 1714
Edward Montagu
c. 1636–1665
Ralph Montagu
1638–1709
1st Duke of Montagu, Earl of Montagu, and Viscount Monthermer, 3rd Baron Montagu of Boughton
Robert Montagu
1634–1683
3rd Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Edward Montagu
1649–1690
Charles Montagu
1661–1715
1st Earl of Halifax and Viscount Sunbury, 1st Baron Halifax
Edward Montagu
1647/48–1688
2nd Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Earldom of Halifax (2nd creation) and subsidiary titles extinct, 1715
Duke of Manchester, 1719Earl of Halifax (3rd creation) and subsidiary titles (3rd creation), 1714
John Montagu
1690–1749
2nd Duke of Montagu, Earl of Montagu, and Viscount Monthermer, 4th Baron Montagu of Boughton
Charles Edward Montagu
c. 1662–1722
1st Duke of Manchester, 4th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
George Montagu
1685–1739
1st Earl of Halifax and Viscount Sunbury, 2nd Baron Halifax
Edward Montagu
1670–1729
3rd Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Dukedom of Montagu (1st creation) and subsidiary titles extinct, 1749
Duke of Montagu (2nd creation) and Marquess of Monthermer (2nd creation), 1766
Baron Montagu of Boughton (3rd creation), 1776
George Brudenell
1712–1790
Earl of Cardigan
Duke of Montagu, Marquess of Monthermer, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton
Mary Montagu
c. 1711–1775
Lady Isabella Montagu
d. 1786
William Montagu
1700–1739
2nd Duke of Manchester, 5th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Robert Montagu
c. 1710–1762
3rd Duke of Manchester, 6th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
George Montagu-Dunk
1716–1771
2nd Earl of Halifax and Viscount Sunbury, 3rd Baron Halifax
Edward Montagu
1692–1722
styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke
John Montagu
1718–1792
4th Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots 🥪
Dukedom of Montagu (2nd creation) and subsidiary titles extinct, 1790Earldom of Halifax (3rd creation) and subsidiary titles extinct, 1771
Baron Montagu of Boughton (2nd creation), 1762
John Montagu
1735–1770
Baron Montagu of Boughton, styled Marquess of Monthermer
Elizabeth Scott
1743–1827
George Montagu
1737–1788
4th Duke of Manchester, 7th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Lady Elizabeth Montague-Dunk
d. 1768
John Montagu
1744–1814
5th Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Baron Montagu of Boughton (2nd creation) extinct, 1770
Henry Montagu-Scott
1776–1845
2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton
George Montagu
1763–1772
styled Viscount Mandeville
William Montagu
1771–1843
5th Duke of Manchester, 8th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
John George Montagu
1767–1790
styled Viscount Hinchinbroke
George John Montagu
1773–1818
6th Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Baron Montagu of Boughton (3rd creation) extinct, 1845
George Montagu
1799–1855
6th Duke of Manchester, 9th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
William Drogo Montagu
1823–1890
7th Duke of Manchester, 10th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Lord Robert Montagu
1825–1902
John William Montagu
1811–1884
7th Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
George Victor Drogo Montagu
1853–1892
8th Duke of Manchester, 11th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Robert Acheson Cromie Montagu
1854–1931
Edward George Henry Montagu
1839–1916
8th Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Victor Alexander Montagu
1841–1915
William Angus Drogo Montagu
1877–1947
9th Duke of Manchester, 12th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
John Michael Cromie Montagu
1881–1966
George Charles Montagu
1874–1962
9th Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Alexander George Francis Drogo Montagu
1902–1977
10th Duke of Manchester, 13th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Robert Alexander Montagu
1917–1996
Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu
1906–1995
10th Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Sidney Arthur Robin George Drogo Montagu
1929–1985
11th Duke of Manchester, 14th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Angus Charles Drogo Montagu
1938–2002
12th Duke of Manchester, 15th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
John Edward Hollister Montagu
b. 1943
11th Earl of Sandwich, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Baron Montagu of St Neots
Alexander Charles David Drogo Montagu
b. 1962
13th Duke of Manchester, 16th Earl of Manchester, Viscount Mandeville, and Baron Montagu of Kimbolton
Lord Kimble William Drogo Montagu
b. 1964
Lady Emma Louise Eveleen Montagu Hodgkinson
1965–2014
Michael Anthony Montagu
b. 1955
Luke Timothy Charles Montagu
b. 1969
styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke
Heir presumptive to the dukedom of ManchesterHeir apparent to the earldom of Sandwich

Line of succession (selected)

Notes

  1. ^ De la Motte, Philip (1804). The Principal, Historical, and Allusive Arms, Borne by Families of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, with Their Respective Authorities. J. Nichols and Son, and sold by F. and C. Rivington. p. 152. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ^ "The Earl of Sandwich". UK Parliament. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  4. ^ Michael Rhodes. "Hon William James Hayman Montagu" birth announced on Peerage News group on Google Groups on 7 November 2005, based on birth notice in Daily Telegraph on 6 November 2004. Retrieved 10 August 2007. Michael Rhodes. "Peerage News". Google Groups.

References

  • Kidd, Charles; Williamson, David (1990). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. London and New York: St Martin's Press.
  • Mosley, Charles (2003). Burke's Peerage and Baronetage (107th ed.). ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  • Leigh Rayment's Peerage Page[usurped]

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