Charles Montagu (of Boughton)

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Sir Charles Montagu (c. 1564 – 11 September 1625) of Cranbrook HallResidence stated on inscription on his monument in St Margaret's Church, Barking in the parish of Barking, Essex, was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1614 to 1625.

Montagu was one of the eight sons of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton House in Northamptonshire by his wife Elizabeth Harington, a daughter of James Harington of Exton, Rutland and Lucy Sidney.T.G. Smollett, 'A Genealogical Account of Montagu, Duke of Manchester', The British Magazine, or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen & Ladies, Vol. II (James Payne, London 1761), [https://books.google.com/books?id=_jIJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA579 pp. 576-83, at p. 579] (Google). Among his brothers were Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton, ancestor of Montagu, Dukes of Montagu; Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, ancestor of Montagu, Dukes of Manchester and Montagu, Earls of Halifax and Sir Sidney Montagu, ancestor of Montagu, Earls of Sandwich. He was knighted at York or at Grimston Park on 18 April 1603.W.A. Shaw, Knights of England, 2 vols (Sherratt and Hughes, London 1906), II, [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t9s210n6w&view=1up&seq=109 p. 101] (Hathi Trust).Henry Ellis, Original Letters, 1st series vol. 3 (London, 1824), p. 75.

He was elected as a Member of Parliament for Harwich in 1614, after Sir Robert Mansell was elected for two constituencies, and chose to sit for another. Montagu sat until 1620.V.C.D. Moseley and R. Sgroi, 'Montagu, Sir Charles (1567-1625), of Lombard Street, London and Cranbrook, Barking, Essex', in A. Thrush and J.P. Ferris (eds), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629 (Cambridge University Press 2010), [http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/montagu-sir-charles-1567-1625 History of Parliament Online].

In 1621, he was elected as an MP for Higham Ferrers. He was re-elected MP for Higham Ferrers in 1624 and 1625.Browne Willis, Notitia Parliamentaria, or, An History of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs in England and Wales: ...The whole extracted from MSS and printed evidences (Author, London 1750), [https://books.google.com/books?id=5V09AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA176 pp. 176-239] (Google).

Montagu died at the age of 61 and was buried in St Margaret's Church, Barking where survives his mural monument depicting a small effigy of Sir Charles fully armed, sitting in a military tent during a campaign.[http://www.speel.me.uk/essex/barkingch.htm See image (zoomable)]T. Cromwell, Excursions in the county of Essex, 2 vols (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London 1818), II, [https://books.google.com/books?id=-NYvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA179 p. 179] (Google). Inscribed as follows:

:Heere lieth the body of ye worthy knight S^r Charles Montagu who died at his house at Cranbrook in Essex in the parish of Barking the 11th of September in ye yeere of our Lorde God 1625 being of ye age of 61 yeares who gave to ye poore of Barking forty pounds[http://www.speel.me.uk/essex/barkingch.htm See zoomable image]