DRAKE, Montagu Garrard (1692-1728), of Shardeloes, nr. Amersham, Bucks.

b. 14 Oct. 1692, 1st and o. surv. s. of Montagu Drake*. educ. private tutor (Philip Ayres); St. John’s, Oxf. 1706, MA 1709; Padua 1710; travelled abroad (Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, France) 1710–12. m. 13 Oct. 1719 (with £30,000), Isabella (d. 1744), da. and h. of Thomas Marshall (d. 1712), merchant, of St. Michael Bassishaw, London, wid., 3s. (1 d.v.p.). suc. fa. 1698. HMC Lords n.s. x. 248; Lipscomb, Bucks. iii. 155; Shardeloes Pprs. ed. Eland, 70–71, 143; Egerton 3339, f. 111; Add. 22229, f. 103; Bucks. RO, D/Dr/9/16; 10/3; Westminster Abbey (Harl. Soc. Reg. x), 44; Yorks. Arch. Soc. vii. 97; Burke, Commoners, i. 582; Verney Letters 18th Cent. ii. 75.