George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester

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His Grace
The Duke of Manchester
Viscount Mandeville Vanity Fair 1882-04-22.jpg
"Kim".
The then Viscount Mandeville as caricatured by 'Spy' (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1882
Member of Parliament
for Huntingdonshire
In office
1877–1880
MonarchVictoria
Personal details
Born17 June 1853
Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire, England
Died18 August 1892(1892-08-18) (aged 39)
Tandragee Castle, County Armagh, Ulster, Ireland
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1876)​
Children
Parent(s)

George Victor Drogo Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester (Kimbolton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 17 June 1853[1] – Tandragee Castle, County Armagh, 18 August 1892), styled Lord Kimbolton from 1853 to 1855 and Viscount Mandeville from 1855 to 1890, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Background[]

Montagu was the son of William Drogo Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, and Countess Louise von Alten.

Political career[]

In 1877 Montagu was elected to the House of Commons for Huntingdonshire, a seat he held until 1880. Apart from his political career he also achieved the rank of captain in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. In 1890 succeeded his father in the dukedom and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was declared bankrupt the same year.

Family[]

Kimbolton Castle, the former seat of the Dukes of Manchester

On 22 May 1876 at Grace Church, Manhattan, New York, New York County, New York, Manchester married Consuelo Yznaga,[2] the daughter of a wealthy Cuban plantation owner and a renowned beauty. Her older brother was New York banker Fernando Yznaga.[3] It was widely accepted that he had married her for her money and she him for his titles. One of Consuelo Yznaga's closest friends, Edith Wharton, was said to have incorporated certain aspects of her friend's marriage in her unfinished novel, The Buccaneers. Their union produced a son and twin daughters:

Prior to his marriage, Manchester had been considered an inebriate, and was shunned by respectable society.[5]

Manchester died in August 1892, aged only 39, and was succeeded in his titles by his son William.

References[]

  1. ^ Sometimes appears 1858.
  2. ^ "LORD MANDEVILLE'S WEDDING.;". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2015., retrieved 5 December 2012.
  3. ^ "FERNANDO YZNAGA DEAD; Stricken with Diphtheria, He Died at the Minturn Hospital. Friend and Brother-in-Law of William K. Vanderbilt -- His Second Marriage -- Business Career" (PDF). The New York Times. 7 March 1901. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  4. ^ "LADY ALICE MONTAGU DEAD.; Consumption Carries Off Noted English Beauty -- Her Mother Is the Duchess of Manchester". The New York Times. 11 January 1900. Retrieved 14 April 2017.
  5. ^ Some English Lords, South Bourke and Mornington Journal (Australia), 24 Feb 1886, Page 1 [1]
  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.

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1877–1880
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