Edward Wortley Montagu was an English coal-owner and politician. He was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, husband of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller
Portrait of Edward Wortley Montagu from 1730
Wortley Hall, view from the south, 2009 photograph showing in the pediment the arms of Baron Wharncliffe added after 1826
Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, was a British politician.
Edward Wortley Montagu (diplomat)
…added for his daughter Mary in the 1780s. Montagu is known for his correspondence with, seduction of, and elopement with Mary Pierrepont, daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull. They married in 1712. 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…
Portrait by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709
Retuched Painting of Robert Walpole
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend by Sir Godfrey Kneller, Bt