MONTAGU, Hon. Robert (c.1667-93), of the Middle Temple, London

Montagu was returned for Huntingdonshire in 1690, no doubt with the assistance of his brother the 4th Earl of Manchester. In the new Parliament, Lord Carmarthen (Sir Thomas Osborne†) classed him as a Whig, and in a list of April 1691 Robert Harley* described him as a Country supporter. Montagu died at his chambers in the Middle Temple on 4 Dec. 1693, reportedly ‘of a cold in two or three days’, or a fever. Luttrell, Brief Relation, iii. 235; BL, Verney mss mic. 636/47, John Verney* (later Ld. Fermanagh) to William Coleman, 6 Dec. 1693.