UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Born: 2 February 1666

Died: 30 October 1723

Knighted - 16 April 1705

son of Hon George Montagu

husband of Tufton Wray

husband of Lady Elizabeth Montagu

son-in-law of William Wray

Trinity College, Cambridge (1683 - 1698)

Middle Temple (1683 -)

Lincoln's Inn (1707 -)

Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer	April 1694
Solicitor General	1707	October 1708
Attorney General	October 1708	September 1710
Baron of the Exchequer	1714	1722
Baron of the Exchequer	1714	1722
Commissioner of the Privy Seal	April 1718	May 1718
Chief Baron of the Exchequer	1722	30 October 1723	(Died)

25 July 1698	Cambridge University	Whig	130	49.15
30 December 1698	Bere Alston	Whig	Unopposed
18 May 1705	Carlisle	Whig	284	74.44
20 May 1708	Carlisle	Whig
October 1708 Resignation of Sir James Montagu on appointment as Attorney-General.
15 December 1708	Carlisle	Whig	Unopposed
16 October 1710	Carlisle	Whig	266	63.41