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Lady Agneta Harriet Montagu (née Yorke; 13 December 1838 - 12 March 1919), sometimes known as Lady Agnete Yorke and Lady Augusta Yorke, was a British aristocrat and courtier. She served as a bridesmaid at the wedding of Alexandra of Denmark and Edward VII in 1867 and as Lady of the Bedchamber in the household of Princess Helena of ...
Sandwich was the son of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Victor Alexander Montagu, second son of John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich. His mother was Lady Agneta Harriet, daughter of Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke. He was Assistant Private Secretary to the Board of Trade from 1898 to 1900.
Lady Agneta Harriet Montagu (née Yorke) (1838-1919), Wife of Victor Alexander Montagu; daughter of 4th Earl of Hardwicke. Sitter associated with 4 portraits
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The son of John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich and Lady Mary Paget, he was born at Westminster in April 1841. He was educated by a private tutor. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet six months short of his twelfth birthday in 1853, with encouragement from his father and misgivings from his mother. He had prior to this attended a naval school in Port...
Montagu briefly served in the Mediterranean Fleet as a midshipman aboard the dispatch boat HMS Foxhound under the command of A. C. Hobart. He was personally selected to serve aboard the frigate HMS Raleigh by Henry Keppel, with the ship departing from Portsmouth for China Station in October 1856; Raleigh's 28-day voyage to the Cape of Good Hope was...
Having returned to England in June 1859, Montagu was afforded two months leave, after which he was appointed to HMS Algiers of the Channel Fleet. He attained six years as a midshipman in the spring of 1860 and was promoted to lieutenant in July 1860. Montagu described his service with the Channel Fleet as "dull... after years of excitement and cons...
Montagu married Lady Agneta Harriet Yorke, the daughter of Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke in November 1867. The couple had four children, three daughters and a son. Their son, George, succeeded Montagu's brother as the 9th Earl of Sandwich. Montagu wrote two autobiographical books; A Middy's Recollections, 1853–1860 (1898) about his career as...
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Lady Agneta Harriet Montagu (née Yorke) (1838-1919), Wife of Victor Alexander Montagu; daughter of 4th Earl of Hardwicke. Sitter associated with 4 portraits.
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Lady Agneta Harriet Montagu (née Yorke; 13 December 1838 - 12 March 1919), sometimes known as Lady Agnete Yorke and Lady Augusta Yorke, was a British aristocrat and courtier. She served as a bridesmaid at the wedding of Alexandra of Denmark and Edward VII in 1867 and as Lady of the Bedchamber in the household of Princess Helena of the United ...
