Grand Masters of the United Grand Lodge of England [ugle] and of Scotland



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George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Montagu,_4th_Duke_of_Manchester

son of Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester.

He was MP for Huntingdonshire 17611762. In 1783, he was created a Privy Councillor.
He married Elizabeth Dashwood, on 23 October 1762. >

They had three children:

George Montagu d. age 8

Caroline Maria Montagu (d. 1847), married James Graham, 3rd Duke of Montrose and had issue.



William Montagu, 5th Duke of Manchester (17711843)
George Montagu, 4th duke of Manchester (1737-1788), was the son of Robert, the 3rd duke. He was a supporter of Lord Rockingham, and an active opponent in the House of Lords of Lord North's American policy. In the Rockingham ministry of 1782 Manchester became lord chamberlain. He died in September 1788.
His granddaughter, Lady Susan Montagu, 1801-1870, married, 1816,

George Hay, 1787-1876, 8th Marquess Tweeddale, Acting Grand Master of Scotland – 1818-20.

Their daughter, Susan Georgiana Hay, d. 1853, married, 1836,



James Andrew Ramsay, 1812-1860, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, Grand Master of Scotland – 1836-38, who was the son of

George Ramsay, 1770-1838, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, Grand Master of Scotland – 1804-06, who was the son of

George Ramsay, b. bef 1739, 8th Earl of Dalhousie, Grand Master of Scotland – 1767-79.
< Manchester House was built between 1776-88 for the 4th Duke of Manchester because there was a good duck shooting nearby. Adams built the shell of the building but it was only when the 4th Duke of Manchester bought the leasehold in 1776 that work continued on the house again. Completed in 1788 by the architect Joshua Brown, the house consisted of 5 bays on its south front and 3 storeys. The front façade had at its centre a large Venetian window.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/leisure/archives/online/trafalgar/trafalgar02.htm

George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester, 1737-1788, of Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, was appointed ambassador-extraordinary to France in 1783 to supervise the completion of the Treaty of Versailles, ending England’s conflict with France and Spain and confirming the independence of her former American colonies.



Manchester returned from France in 1783 highly suspicious of French intentions, and continued to monitor her naval preparations, particularly along the Channel coast. He received regular reports from his political agent, Captain Taylor, whose letters of January and February 1788 reported that French naval re-armament continued: ‘As to the works at Cherbourg being destroyed by the gales, only very small damage was done …. You may depend the works will be continued when the season will permit.’




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimbolton_Castle

< Kimbolton Castle

The castle was bought by Sir Henry Montagu, later 1st Earl of Manchester, in 1615. His descendants owned the castle for 335 years until it was sold in 1951.



Charles Edward Montagu, the 4th Earl who was created 1st Duke of Manchester in 1719, had many works of reconstruction carried out between 1690 and 1720. Sir John Vanbrugh and his assistant Nicholas Hawksmoor redesigned the facades of the castle in a classical style, but with battlements to evoke its history as a castle, the portico was later added by Alessandro Galilei. The Venetian painter Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini redecorated some of the reconstructed rooms in 1708, including the main staircase and the chapel. Rich, gilded furnishings in a Louis XIV-inspired style were commissioned from French upholsterers working in London.

For a later duke, Robert Adam produced plans for the castle gatehouse and other garden buildings, including an orangery. Only one of these buildings, the gatehouse, was constructed in around 1764. Mews buildings were added to provide stables, and an avenue of Giant Sequoias was planted in the 19th century.




His grand daughter, Lady Susan Montagu [1810-1870], married 1816

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