Edward Wortley Montagu, III

• "Edward Wortley Montagu", Westminster Abbey

Edward Wortley Montagu, born 1750, illegitimate son of the traveller, diplomat and gambler of the same name, has a memorial tablet in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey. He was grandson of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the famous hostess and writer (she was buried at St Paul's, Covent Garden). The monument was put up in 1787 and is of artificial stone by E.M. Coade. It consists of a sarcophagus supported on paws, with a garlanded urn on top. In a roundel is a seated figure and the Latin inscription can be translated:

This monument was erected to Edward Wortley Montagu, who was shipwrecked while returning to Britain from the East Indies in 1777 in his 27th year, by John English Dolben, heir to the aforementioned Edward's library, and his joint residuary legatee, in memory of a friendship which began at the neighbouring royal school [Westminster School], continued without interruption at Oxford, was not diminished though half the world lay between, was hardly broken even by death, and which, if it pleases God, shall be renewed in Heaven.