Sarah Rogers married as his second wife, Charles Montagu born 1658 in Shrubland, Suffolk.
They married on 31st December 1691.
Sarah and Charles had 4 children:
Jemima Montagu c 1694 c d 1759 m Sir Sydney Meadows had no children
Edward Montagu Born 13 Nov 1692 d 1775 m Elizabeth Robinson
Crewe Montagu Born 25 Jan 1693 d bef 1755 Did not marry
John Montagu Lieutenant-colonel in the Foot Guards 1692 1734 Did not marry
Sir Sidney Meadows, by George Stubbs, RA, 1778, 32 x 40 inches, Royal Collection.
Sidney Meadows (c. 1699 – 15 November 1792) was a British Member of Parliament.
Biography
He was the eldest son of Sir Philip Meadows and his wife Dorothy, daughter of Edward Boscawen.On 2 June 1742 he married Jemima, daughter of Charles Montagu of Durham and granddaughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich; they had no children.
Through the influence of his uncle Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth, Meadows was returned to Parliament for Penryn in 1722 and for Truro in 1727. In 1734 he was nominated Member for Tavistock by the Duke of Bedford. All his recorded votes were against the government and he did not stand in 1741. In 1757 he succeeded his father and in 1758 he was appointed Knight Marshal, one of the judges (along with the Lord Steward of the Household) of the Marshalsea Court. He held this office until his death.
He was the eldest son of the diplomat Sir Philip Meadowes (d.1757), of Brompton, Kensington,[2] and his wife Dorothy, daughter of Edward Boscawen.
Edward Montagu (1692–1776), of Sandleford, was a brother-in-law.
Through the influence of his uncle Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth, Meadows was returned to Parliament for Penryn in 1722 and for Truro in 1727. In 1734 he was nominated Member for Tavistock by the Duke of Bedford. All his recorded votes were against the government and he did not stand in 1741. In 1757 he succeeded his father and in 1758 he was appointed Knight Marshal, one of the judges (along with the Lord Steward of the Household) of the Marshalsea Court. He held this office until his death. By 1761, Sidney Meadows was Deputy Ranger of Richmond Park when Prime Minister John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute was Ranger. Sidney's brother, Philip (d.1781), was Deputy Ranger of Windsor Park
Charles Montagu, born about 1658 , died in 1721 in Breda , is a politician, MP for Durham from 1685 to 1687 , then 1695 to 1702 , and an English businessman.
He was one of the shareholders of the new Bank of England founded in 1694, with enough shares to be administrator. He is the namesake cousin of another famous member of the Whig party, Charles Montagu , Lord Halifax said, key figure in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 British, chancellor of the exchequer , described as the great financial originally borrowings perpetual and massive indirect taxation of the British financial revolution .
He is the first to use a strict double-entry bookkeeping maneuvers to deal with its two partners, Thomas Fenwick and Thomas Rawling which held respectively twelfth twelfth and three of the company, as shown in the balance sheet accounting correspondence.
He is the fifth son 's Edward Montagu (1625-1672), 1st Earl of Sandwich , English politician.He is the first to use a strict double-entry bookkeeping maneuvers to deal with its two partners, Thomas Fenwick and Thomas Rawling which held respectively twelfth twelfth and three of the company, as shown in the balance sheet accounting correspondence.
Originally from London, Charles Montagu recovers land in the area of Newcastle , north-east of England, first by marrying the daughter of an aristocrat, then resuming mine Benwell in which the previous owner Henry Rawling had invested in a system of drainage pumps that cost him all his capital . Montagu bought him two-thirds of the shares.
Since 1692 he created a system of wooden carts to transport coal, which today are still traces . It is parallel to the elected parliament. To expand its operations, it bypasses the requirement to go through the company of 26 "free men" , in reality 26 owners , the Company Hostmen of Tyne Valley, located along the river, in the area of Newcastle . Their market share down from 95% in 1700 to 60% a decade later. In a petition to Parliament in 1696, the Company of Hostmen of Newcastle calls for ban of its business.
While its competitors are along the river, Charles Montague innovates by building a route for trucks, along six kilometers of rails and made of wood, which helps connect its mine Gibside (Hutton), too away from the river at the other mine, Benwell , near the River Tyne .
Expected in 1697, only completed in 1699, the construction of this "forest path" made him famous. Before investing in the well Stumplewood in Benwell, it makes financial projections, which are found traces in his correspondence with forecasts for twelve months, anticipating 35,000 tons of sales for revenue 5525 sterling and expenditure of 4070 sterling is a profit of 33%.
Through this process, coal production from the mine site is 70 000 tonnes from 1703 . Charles Montagu became the largest coal producer in the United Kingdom, with majority stakes in two mines, equivalent to a production of 100 000 tonnes. He lives in London, where he oversees the marketing. He kept all the notes and calculations of profitability of mine in his correspondence.
From 1800, a century later, in England, all mine rails for the galleries will be made of carbon steel.
Since 1692 he created a system of wooden carts to transport coal, which today are still traces . It is parallel to the elected parliament. To expand its operations, it bypasses the requirement to go through the company of 26 "free men" , in reality 26 owners , the Company Hostmen of Tyne Valley, located along the river, in the area of Newcastle . Their market share down from 95% in 1700 to 60% a decade later. In a petition to Parliament in 1696, the Company of Hostmen of Newcastle calls for ban of its business.
While its competitors are along the river, Charles Montague innovates by building a route for trucks, along six kilometers of rails and made of wood, which helps connect its mine Gibside (Hutton), too away from the river at the other mine, Benwell , near the River Tyne .
Expected in 1697, only completed in 1699, the construction of this "forest path" made him famous. Before investing in the well Stumplewood in Benwell, it makes financial projections, which are found traces in his correspondence with forecasts for twelve months, anticipating 35,000 tons of sales for revenue 5525 sterling and expenditure of 4070 sterling is a profit of 33%.
Through this process, coal production from the mine site is 70 000 tonnes from 1703 . Charles Montagu became the largest coal producer in the United Kingdom, with majority stakes in two mines, equivalent to a production of 100 000 tonnes. He lives in London, where he oversees the marketing. He kept all the notes and calculations of profitability of mine in his correspondence.
From 1800, a century later, in England, all mine rails for the galleries will be made of carbon steel.
Charles Montagu ceases all parliamentary activity in 1701 . He then set up in March 1701, an association of eight coal producers in north-east England, that to secure its business opportunities intended for before investing . This association, which looks like a cartel, resulting in 1702 in a survey of parliament, due to the high price of coal.
The survey condemns the practice of commercial commissions paid to facilitate the arrival of their coal to London at the expense of competitors .
The son of Charles Montagu has sold the business when true cartel controlling the quantity and price of local coal is established in 1708.
The association, which operates many of his heirs in 1726 called "The great allies." It aims to facilitate the passage of wagons in the coal region of Durham and built the Causey Arch , on the Tanfield Railway , 20 meters high, which costs 1200 sterling, whose traces remain because it has been restored.
In 1720, her family shares in eleven mining companies in the region. George Liddell and William Cotesworth are shareholders in six other companies, after the arrival of coal brokers Wrhight Robert and Thomas Brumell in mine Bucksnook , whose three-eighths were sold to the landowner Gilbert Spearman .
Most of these early entrepreneurs British coal are held away from the great speculations in the capital , particularly on the shares of the Company of the South Seas.
Most of these early entrepreneurs British coal are held away from the great speculations in the capital , particularly on the shares of the Company of the South Seas.
From History of Parliament online:
b. c.1658, 5th s. of Edward Montagu†, 1st Earl of Sandwich,
by Jemima, da. of John Crew†, 1st Baron Crew, of Stene, Northants.; bro.
of Edward Montagu†, Visct. Hinchingbrooke, Hon. Oliver Montagu† and
Hon. Sidney Wortley Montagu*. educ. St. Neots g.s.; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1677; M. Temple 1677; Lincoln, Oxf. 1682. m.
(1) 3 Sept. 1685, Elizabeth, da. and coh. of Francis Forster of
Easington Grange, co. Dur. and Belford, 1s.; (2) 31 Dec. 1691, Sarah,
da. of John Rogers, merchant of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumb., 3s. 1da.1
Offices Held
Freeman, Durham 1683; constable, Durham Castle 1684–1715; v.-adm. co. Dur. 1685–90; spiritual chancellor of Durham dioc. 1687–90; sheriff, co. Dur. 1687–1709; alderman, Durham by 1687–d.; seneschal of Durham 1690–1709.2
Commr. for taking subscriptions to land bank, 1696.3
Biography
Son of a Huntingdonshire peer, Montagu accumulated numerous administrative offices in the county palatine and see of Durham prior to the Revolution. He owed this advancement to the patronage of his uncle Nathaniel Crew, bishop of Durham, and it was Crew’s continued favour in the 1690s that led to Montagu’s involvement in the north-east coal industry.Crew’s leases of mining rights to Montagu and his brother Sidney Wortley Montagu established the family among the region’s leading coal proprietors, and by the end of the 17th century Montagu’s pits in north Northumberland and south Durham were producing over 100,000 tons p.a.
His growing wealth is perhaps indicated by his inclusion in 1694 upon a list of subscribers to the Bank of England, in which he was listed as having sufficient stock to qualify for election as a director. The bishop had secured Montagu’s return for Durham in 1685, and presumably assisted his re-election for the borough in 1695.
Suggestions that Montagu stand for Northumberland, where he had gained property through his first marriage, came to nothing. He retained the seat until the end of the reign, but most of the recorded parliamentary activity under the name of ‘Charles Montagu’ applies to Montagu’s prominent Junto Whig cousin and namesake, the future Lord Halifax. Probably due to his recent entry to the Commons, Montagu was initially listed as ‘doubtful’ in the forecast of January 1696 for the division on the council of trade, but this was later amended to indicate his likely support for the Court.
In February he promptly signed the Association. In the following session he voted, on 25 Nov., for the attainder of Sir John Fenwick†, and a comparison of the old and new Commons dating from September 1698 classed him as a Court supporter. He voted on 18 Jan. 1699 against the disbanding bill, and in early 1700 an analysis of the Commons listed him as a follower of his cousin Charles.
In December 1701 Robert Harley* classed him as a Whig. Montagu did not stand for Parliament in 1702 or, as far as can be ascertained, at any later election. Having retired from the Commons, he appears initially to have continued his leading role in the north-east coal trade, being a member of the ‘coal office’ established by a number of coal owners in the early 1700s to help secure markets for their product.
By 1708, however, when a cartel was established to control the production and price of the region’s coal, it seems that his son James (III*) had taken over the management of the family’s mining interests.
Montagu died at Breda* and was buried at Barnwell All Saints, Northamptonshire, on 29 June 1721.
*Belgium
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, KG, FRS (27 July 1625 – 28 May 1672) was an English landowner, infantry officer, and later naval officer and politician, who sat in the House of Commons at various points between 1645 and 1660. He served Oliver Cromwell loyally in the 1650s, but went on to play a considerable part in the Restoration of King Charles II, and was subsequently rewarded with several court offices. Sandwich served as the English ambassador to Portugal from 1661 to 1662, and the ambassador to Spain from 1666 to 1668. He later became an admiral, serving in the two Anglo-Dutch Wars during the reign of Charles II; he was killed at the Battle of Solebay. A detailed primary source for Sandwich's career in the 1660s is the diary of Samuel Pepys, who was his cousin and protégé.
THE MONTAGUS They have been part of our ancestry.
Montagu Family also
spelled Montague, or Montacute, family name
of the later medieval English earls of Salisbury, who were descended from Drogo
of Montagu, given in Domesday Book (1086) as one of the chief landholders in
Somerset. The family first became prominent in the 14th century, notably by the
achievements of William de Montagu, who helped King
Edward III throw off the tutelage of his mother, Queen Isabella, and her lover,
Roger Mortimer, Earl of March; William was created Earl of Salisbury in 1337.
His descendants fought with distinction in the Hundred Years’ War. Thomas de Montacute (d. 1428), Earl of Salisbury, left only a daughter, Alice; she married Richard Neville (who became earl in her right), and their son Richard, Earl of Warwick, was called “the kingmaker” for his dominant role in the Wars of the Roses.
His descendants fought with distinction in the Hundred Years’ War. Thomas de Montacute (d. 1428), Earl of Salisbury, left only a daughter, Alice; she married Richard Neville (who became earl in her right), and their son Richard, Earl of Warwick, was called “the kingmaker” for his dominant role in the Wars of the Roses.
Charles' father Admiral Sir Edward Montague 1st Earl of Sandwich
Montagu was the only surviving son of Sir Sidney Montagu, by his wife Paulina Pepys of Cottenham (great-aunt of Samuel Pepys) and was brought up at Hinchingbrooke House.
He served the Cause of Parliament by raising a regiment of infantry in June 1643. In 1645, he was elected Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire as a recruiter to the Long Parliament. He was nominated MP for Huntingdonshire in 1653 for the Barebones Parliament and was elected MP for Huntingdonshire in 1654 for the First Protectorate Parliament. He continued to serve in the army for the Commonwealth of England and, in 1656 he became a General at Sea. In 1656 he was re-elected MP for Huntingdonshire in the Second Protectorate Parliament.
In 1660 Montagu was elected MP for Dover and Weymouth and Melcombe Regis and chose to sit for Dover in the Convention Parliament. At the Restoration he served Charles II
as Admiral, commanding the fleet that brought him back from exile in
May 1660. Two months later, on 12 July 1660, he was created Baron Montagu of St Neots, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, and Earl of Sandwich.
King Charles also made him a Knight of the Garter and appointed him Master of the Great Wardrobe, Admiral of the narrow seas (the English Channel), and Lieutenant Admiral to The Duke of York, Lord High Admiral of England. He carried St. Edward's staff at Charles' subsequent coronation.
In the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665 to 1667 he fought at the Battle of Lowestoft but defeat at the Battle of Vågen
led to him being removed from service.
During his absence from battle
Edward Montagu served as England's ambassador to Spain. After the Great Fire of London
Montagu downplayed the damage to the Spanish King claiming that
London's slums were the only thing in ashes. This slant on the events
was also practiced by England's ambassadors throughout Europe.
He was subsequently reappointed however, and by 1672 at the start of the Third Anglo-Dutch War he was Vice-Admiral of the Blue with the Royal James as his flagship. At the Battle of Solebay his ship was attacked by a group of fire ships
and was destroyed with the loss of many lives, including Sandwich
himself, whose charred body was found washed ashore and only
recognizable from the remains of his clothing.
On Wednesday 3 July 1672 he was buried in Westminster Abbey after a
state funeral that started with a procession along the River Thames of
five decorated barges from Deptford. The body was landed at Westminster
at about 5 pm and carried to the Abbey in a grand procession.
http://bcw-project.org/biography/edward-montagu-earl-of-sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, 1625-72
The youngest colonel in the New Model Army, he
supported Cromwell's Protectorate as an admiral and diplomat, then
played a leading role in the Restoration of Charles II.
Edward
Montagu (also spelt "Mountagu") was the eldest surviving son of Sir
Sydney Montagu (c.1571-1644) of Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdonshire, a
courtier to King James I and MP for Huntingdonshire. His mother was
Paulina Pepys (d.1638), daughter of John Pepys and a great-aunt of
Samuel Pepys.
Montagu was educated at Huntingdon Grammar School and was
registered for the Middle Temple, but apparently never studied there. In
November 1642, Montagu married Jemima Crew (1625-74) at St Margaret's
Church, Westminster.
Civil War Career
Although his father was a Royalist,
Montagu supported Parliament when the English Civil War broke out in
1642. When his cousin the Earl of Manchester
(also named Edward Montagu) took command of the Eastern Association
army in the summer of 1643, Montagu was commissioned to raise a regiment
of foot and became its colonel at the age of eighteen. Montagu's
regiment took part in the storming of Hillesden House in March 1644 and
the capture of Lincoln in May then marched north with the main body of
the Eastern Association to participate in the siege of York.
After
fighting at Marston Moor and second Newbury, Montagu was one of the officers who supported Oliver Cromwell
in his denunciation of Manchester's leadership. Despite his family
connection, Montagu gave evidence against Manchester before a
parliamentary committee in November 1644.
In 1645, Montagu's regiment was incorporated into the New Model Army. Montagu himself commanded a brigade comprising his own regiment and those of Colonel Pickering and Colonel Hammond. At the battle of Naseby
in June 1645, Montagu's regiment was one of those that broke as the
Royalist infantry advanced in the centre. On the New Model's subsequent
campaign in the West, he was promoted to acting major-general in place
of the wounded Philip Skippon.
At the storming of Bristol
in September, Montagu led the attack through the breach at Lawford's
Gate and on Bristol Castle itself. After the battle, he was sent to
London with Colonel Hammond to report the capture of Bristol to
Parliament.
Montagu's army career came to an end in October 1645 under the terms of the Self-Denying Ordinance when he was elected MP for Huntingdonshire. He supported the Independent faction, but was generally inactive in the House of Commons and withdrew entirely from Parliament after Pride's Purge in December 1648.
Loyal Cromwellian
Following a period of retirement at
Hinchingbrooke, which he inherited on the death of his father in 1644,
Montagu returned to public life as a member of the short-lived Nominated Assembly
(Barebones Parliament) in July 1653. When the Assembly surrendered its
powers to Cromwell in December, Montagu fully supported the subsequent
establishment of Cromwell's Protectorate and was elected to the Protector's first Council of State.
He emerged as a leading member of the Protectorate régime, acting as a
spokesman for the government in Parliamentary debates and taking on
important diplomatic roles.
In January 1656, Montagu was appointed joint General-at-Sea with Robert Blake
for an expedition against Spain. Montagu had no previous naval
experience. His appointment was partly political and a snub to the
radical vice-admiral John Lawson,
who was suspected of plotting against the Protectorate.
The fleet
sailed in March 1656 with orders to intercept the Spanish plate fleet
returning from the Americas. Montagu's main task was to negotiate the
ratification of a treaty with Portugal and to extract £50,000
compensation for Portugal's sheltering of Prince Rupert in 1649. Coerced
by the presence of the fleet, King John IV of Portugal agreed to the
English demands. In September 1656, Vice-Admiral Stayner captured two
treasure ships of the Spanish plate fleet as it made a dash for Cadiz.
Montagu, whose relations with Blake were strained, returned to England
with the captured treasure in October. Despite having played no part in
the capture of the Spanish ships, he accepted the thanks of Parliament
on 4 November 1656.
As one of Cromwell's most loyal supporters, Montagu was a member
of the faction that offered him the crown in 1657. After Cromwell's
second refusal, Montagu was appointed to the controversial Upper House
constituted under the terms of the Humble Petition and Advice
and was made a member of the Protector's privy council. He also
continued to play an active role as a general-at-sea, commanding the
fleets that supported the joint Anglo-French attacks on Mardyke and Dunkirk
in 1657-8. After the capture of Dunkirk in June 1658, Montagu was
presented to King Louis XIV and entertained Cardinal Mazarin aboard his
flagship the Naseby.
After Oliver's death in September 1658, Montagu remained a member
of the Protector's council and pledged his personal loyalty and that of
the fleet to Richard Cromwell,
who commissioned him colonel of a cavalry regiment in order to
strengthen support for the Protectorate among the military members of
the council. Montagu's loyalty provoked strong hostility from other
officers on the council, notably Major-General Disbrowe who alleged that Montagu had plotted to have him kidnapped and perhaps murdered, but was unable to support the accusation.
In March 1659, Montagu commanded a fleet sent to the Baltic to
defend England's commercial interests and to counteract a Dutch attempt
to intervene in the war between Sweden and Denmark, but his diplomatic
efforts were interrupted by the fall of the Protectorate and the return
to power of the Rump Parliament
in May 1659.
Republicans mistrusted Montagu and suspected that he was
in contact with Royalists, particularly as his return to England
coincided with Booth's Uprising
and a series of planned Royalist insurrections around the country.
Montagu protested his loyalty before Parliament. Although no evidence
could be found against him, his commission was revoked and he retired
once again to Hinchingbrooke.
The Restoration
In February 1660, General Monck
occupied London and restored the MPs who had been expelled from
Parliament in 1648. In the changed political climate, Montagu was
recalled to the Council of State and made joint general-at-sea with
Monck. Realising that the restoration of the monarchy was inevitable,
Montagu co-operated with Monck and proceeded to purge the fleet of
republican and radical officers.
He entered into correspondence with Charles II and was elected to the pro-Royalist Convention Parliament in April 1660 as MP for Dover. His flagship was renamed the Royal Charles,
and on 14 May, Montagu's fleet sailed to Scheveningen in the
Netherlands to convey Charles II back to England. The royal party landed
at Dover on 25 May.
Montagu was richly rewarded for his role in the Restoration.
Amongst other honours, he was made a Knight of the Garter and created
first Earl of Sandwich. He went on to lead a distinguished career as a
diplomat, naval administrator and fighting admiral under Charles II. He
was killed in action at the battle of Solebay in May 1672 during the
Third Anglo-Dutch War, going down with his flagship the Royal James
which, according to some accounts, he refused to abandon. Sandwich's
posthumous reputation was enhanced by his portrayal in the famous diary
of his client and kinsman Samuel Pepys, in which he appears as a generous and sophisticated patron.
Montagu's marriage to Jemima Crew produced six sons and three
daughters. He was succeeded as second Earl of Sandwich by his eldest
son, also named Edward Montagu (1644-89).
- Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Sandwich (1648–1688)
- Hon. Sidney Montagu (1650–1727)
- Hon. Oliver Montagu (c.1655–1689)
- Hon. John Montagu (c.1655 – 25 February 1729), Dean of Durham
- Hon. Charles Montagu (c.1658–1721), married first Elizabeth Forester, second Sarah Rogers and had issue by both
- Lady Jemima Montagu, married Sir Philip Carteret (d. 1672)
- Lady Anne Montagu (d. 14 March 1729), married first Sir Richard Edgcumbe, second Christopher Montagu, elder brother of the Earl of Halifax
- Lady Catherine Montagu (c. September 1660 – 15 January 1757), married first Nicholas Bacon, second Rev. Balthazar Gardeman
- Hon. James Montagu
- Lady Paulina Montagu
 Born Jemima Crew, she married Edward Mountagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich,
and Pepys’ patron, in 1642. They had ten children.Pepys referred to her as “my Lady” and was influential in the arranged marriage of her daughter Jemima and Sir Philip Carteret in 1665. http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/26885 Dr. Kate Loveman, English lecturer at the University of Leicester, has found some early English chocolate recipes in the journal of Edward Mountagu, the first Earl of Sandwich, great-great grandfather of John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, credited with inventing the fine foodstuff that bears the family title on far thinner evidence than recipes written in his own hand. The most complete recipe is for a frozen chocolate product — a 17th century frappé, if you will — and in an age when freezing was still a subject of extensive scientific study rather than the subject of cookbooks, Sandwich’s frappé may be the earliest English recipe on record for an iced chocolate treat. Loveman specializes in 17th century English literature, especially the diarists. She was reading the papers of Samuel Pepys who repeatedly mentions drinking chocolate at London coffee houses which served coffee, chocolate and tea, all recent introductions courtesy of the Age of Exploration that were viewed with suspicion for their dubious medical properties/dangers and enthusiasm for their dubious medical properties/tastiness. On April 24th, 1661, the day after the coronation of King Charles II, Pepys writes: Waked in the morning with my head in a sad taking through the last night’s drink, which I am very sorry for; so rose and went out with Mr. Creed to drink our morning draft, which he did give me in chocolate to settle my stomach.Chocolate as a hangover cure, sure, why not? This was less than 10 years after chocolate was first brought to England in 1652 and it was already being presented as an aphrodisiac and fertility aid, a link to sensuality that still dominates chocolate advertising to this day. It was also supposed to aid in digestion and to provide healthy nutrients to make “such as drink it often, Fat, and Corpulent, faire and Amiable.” (The fat and corpulent bit was seen as a feature not a bug.) The Earl of Sandwich was one of Pepys’ patrons. He is often mentioned in the journal, so Loveman decided to follow up by reading the unpublished manuscript of Montagu’s journal. She found a 30-page section dedicated to chocolate written in 1668 after the Earl returned from serving as England’s ambassador to Spain. So that might have been the reason that our Charles Montagu died in Belgium! | |
| And I had to add this copy of a portrait of her sourced from the internet at the location: | |
| http://illustrationartgallery.com/acatalog/info-MataniaJemima.html A glimpse into the lives of the rich and famous painted in 1929 by Fortunio Matania  Montagu was the first cousin of the father of Samuel Pepys. Pepys started his career as a minor member of the Montagu household and owed his appointments first to the Wardrobe and then as Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board to Montagu's influence. Pepys' diary provides a detailed primary source for Montagu's career in the 1660s. From "The Montague Mllennium" http://www.montaguemillennium.com/familyresearch/h_1665_jemima.htm | |
Daughter of first Earl of Sandwich. Her arranged marriage is intimately documented by Samuel Pepys . `A typical but particularly well-document example of ... marriage arrangements , as conducted in conservative aristocratic ... circles, concerns those in 1665 for ... Jemima, ... and Philip, the eldest son of Sir George Carteret. The idea ... was first broached by her mother to ... Pepys... and ... the Sandwich parents decided to go ahead with the plans and authorized Pepys to make the first moves. The object was partly financial but more to cement a politico-administrative alliance, since both fathers were now very high officials in the Admiralty. .. . The financial details were rapidly worked out - a marriage portion of £5,000 from Sandwich and a jointure for Jemima, if she were widowed, of £800 a year from Carteret; the approval of the King and of the Duke of York was secured; and the contract was signed and sealed on 5 July. It was not until this moment that Jemima was sent for from the country to be informed what fate her parents had decided for her. The only person bothered by this procedure was her mother, Lady Sandwich, who confided in Pepys her doubts ` whether her daughter will like of it or no, and how troubled she is for fear of it, which I do not fear at all'. Her anxiety seems to have arisen not from doubts about her daughter's happiness, but from the fear of the political damage ... if she unexpectedly turned recalcitrant. By 15 July... the time had come to introduce the couple... Pepys was put in charge of taking ... Philip... to meet his bride. As a man of the world..., with a winning way with women, whom he was constantly pawing and kissing, he was irritated to discover that he had on his hands a most bashful and tongue-tied young man. So shy was Philip that he did not speak to Jemima or touch her at the introduction or all through dinner. Lord Sandwich suggested leaving the pair alone after dinner ..., but Pepys advised against it; ` lest the lady might be too much surprised'. He was afraid of ... Philip's clumsy bashfulness. When he took Philip off to bed, he asked him how he liked his bride. The young man expressed approval ` but in the dullest, insipid manner that ever lover did'. Next day... Pepys instructed Philip to take Jemima by the hand and lead her ... from church, but he was still too shy to even approach her. Later on that day, the pair were deliberately left alone for two periods of about an hour each in order to get acquainted as best they could. Pepys then took Jemima aside and asked her ` how she liked the gentleman and whether she was under any difficulty concerning him. She blushed and hid her face awhile, but at last I forced her to tell me. She answered that she could readily obey what her father and mother had done, which was all she could say, or I expect.' It was indeed... it already had the approval of the King and his brother... Jemima was trapped, as indeed was Philip... the effort to ascertain her feelings was clearly merely perfunctory. ... Jemima remained solemn and discreet, Philip as shy and tongue-tied as ever. ... On 31 July the pair were married with due pomp... although Pepys found ` the young lady mighty sad', and the wedding dinner a stiff and joyless affair. ... History does not relate how they got on with each other for the rest of their short married life, which lasted until Philip was killed at the battle of Solebay seven years later, leaving his widow with three children. | |
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