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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
Edwin Samuel Montagu
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).
Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling, was a British banker who founded the bank of Samuel Montagu & Co. He was a philanthropist and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1900
Edwin Montagu
…of India Act 1919, committing the British to the eventual evolution of India towards dominion status. 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 Doreck College, Clifton College, the City of London School, University College London…
Sir Samuel Montagu
South Stoneham House.