Background and Education
Montagu was the second son and sixth child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling, by his wife Ellen, daughter of Louis Cohen. He was educated at Clifton College, the City of London School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge. At Cambridge, he was the first student President of Cambridge University Liberal Club, from 1902 to 1903, and in 1902 was also President of the Cambridge Union.
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