John Montagu

John Montagu is the name of:

  • John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (1350–1400), English nobleman
  • John Montagu (Trinity) (c. 1650–1728), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1683–1699
  • John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690–1749), British peer
  • John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), British statesman
  • John Montagu (Royal Navy officer) (1719–1795), Commodore Governor for Newfoundland and Labrador, 1776–1778
  • John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich (1744–1814), British peer and Tory politician
  • John George Montagu (1767–1790), eldest son of 5th Earl of Sandwich, British MP for Huntingdon in 1790
  • John Montagu (colonial secretary) (1797–1853), Tasmanian colonial secretary 1834–1842
  • John Montagu, Marquess of Monthermer (1735–1770), British peer
  • John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich (born 1943), British entrepreneur, politician and nobleman
  • John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich (1811–1884), British peer and Conservative politician

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or montagu:

    “Mrs. John Lyford is so much pleased with the state of
    widowhood as to be going to put in for being a widow again; she
    is to marry a Mr. Fendall.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    “Let this great maxim be my virtue’s guide—In part she is to blame that has been tried: He comes too near that comes to be denied.”
    —Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)