Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester was an English judge, politician and peer. He is mainly remembered today as the judge who sentenced Sir Walter Raleigh to death.
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester by Francis Delaram
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax was a British politician and poet. He was the grandson of the 1st Earl of Manchester and was eventually ennobled himself, first as Baron Halifax in 1700 and later
Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester
…in the English House of Commons alongside Oliver Cromwell in 1628. One of his sons by his third wife, Margaret Crouch, was George Montagu, father of Charles Montagu, created Earl of Halifax in 1699, and James Montagu, Attorney General from 1708 to 1710. UK Parliamentary Archives, Papers of the Earls of Manchester…
Portrait attributed to Michael Dahl
Charles Montagu was made Viscount Sunbury and Earl of Halifax at the accession of George I.