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About Edward Wortley Montagu, Sr., First Earl of Sandwich
http://www.thepeerage.com/p1492.htm#i14916
Photo: Wortley Hall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Wortley_Montagu_(diplomat)
Sir Edward Wortley-Montagu (8 February 1678 – 22 January 1761) was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, husband of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu.
Son of Sidney Wortley Montagu and grandson of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, Wortley Montagu was educated at Westminster School, Trinity College, Cambridge (1693) and trained in the law at the Middle Temple (1693), was called to the bar in 1699 and entered the Inner Temple in 1706.
He was best known for his correspondence with, seduction of, and elopement with the aristocratic writer, Mary, daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. They married in 1712. He succeeded his father in 1727, inheriting Wortley Hall, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.
Montagu himself was a prominent Whig politician, and was MP for Huntingdon before eventually becoming a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1714 to 1715.
He made Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and elected the representative of the Levant Company on the king's nomination on 10 May 1716. He arrived with his wife at Adrianople (now known as Edirne) on 13 March 1717. As Ambassador, he was charged with pursuing the ongoing negotiations between the Ottomans and the Habsburg Empire. Unsuccessful in the position he was not made Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in Constantinople before he was recalled in October 1717. He left Turkey on 15 July 1718 and, for some time traveled in the East. Upon his return to England from Constantinople, he fell out with the Whig hierarchy but remained a Member of Parliament for Huntingdon (1722–1734) and Peterborough (1734 until his death in 1761).
From 1757 to 1761 he remodelled Wortley hall, adding the East Wing. On his death he left the hall and a large fortune to his daughter Mary, having in 1755 cut off his son Edward with only a small allowance. Mary married the future Prime Minister, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.
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Edward Wortley Montagu, Sr., First Earl of Sandwich's Timeline
| 1678 |
February 8, 1678
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England
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| 1713 |
1713
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England - son of Edward Wortley Montague
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| 1718 |
January 19, 1718
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İstanbul, Turkey
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| 1761 |
January 22, 1761
Age 82
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England
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