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Edwin Samuel Montagu PC was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. Montagu was a "radical" Liberal and the third practising Jew to serve in the British cabinet.
Edwin Montagu (left), Under-Secretary of State for India, with Reginald McKenna in 1911.
The August 1917 memorandum by Edwin Montagu, the only Jew then in a senior British government position, stating his opposition to the pro-Zionist Balfour Declaration, and that he viewed it as antisemitic
World War I enlistment poster from Canada, with Jewish members of the British parliament, Montagu (extreme right).
Chesterton is a former United Kingdom Parliamentary constituency. It was created upon the splitting up of the three member Cambridgeshire constituency into three single member divisions in 1885. The seat was abolished in 1918 when Cambridgeshire was recreated as a single-member constituency.
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Edwin Montagu