Montague Joseph Feilden

{{Short description|British Liberal and Whig politician (1816-1898)}}

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|honorific-prefix =

|name = Montague Joseph Feilden

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Blackburn

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|term_start = 24 March 1853

|term_end = 27 March 1857

|alongside = James Pilkington

|predecessor = James Pilkington
William Eccles

|successor = James Pilkington
William Henry Hornby

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|birth_date = 8 May 1816

|birth_place = Feniscowles, Lancashire

|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1898|10|17|1816|05|08}}

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|residence = The Chain, Preston, Lancashire

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|nationality = British

|party = Liberal

|otherparty = Whig

|father = William Feilden

| mother = Mary Haughton Jackson

| spouse = {{marriage|Alice Thoume|26 October 1865}}
{{marriage|Mary Anne Valentine|8 January 1846|21 September 1859|end=died}}

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| children = 1

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Montague Joseph Feilden (8 May 1816 – 17 October 1898){{Rayment-hc|b|2|date=April 2018}} was a British Liberal and Whig politician.{{cite web|title=Montague Joseph Feilden|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p40468.htm|website=The Peerage|accessdate=14 April 2018}}

Born in Feniscowles, Lancashire, Feilden was the son of William and Mary Haughton (née Jackson) Feilden. He married firstly to Mary Anne Valentine, daughter of William Valentine, in 1846. After her death in 1859, he remarried to Alice Thoume, daughter of James Thoume, in 1865 and they had at least one child, Montague Leyland Feilden (1867–1900).

Feilden was elected Whig MP for Blackburn at a by-election in 1853—caused by the election of William Eccles being declared void on petition, due to bribery{{cite news|title=Blackburn Election|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000206/18530326/006/0005|accessdate=14 April 2018|work=Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser|date=26 March 1853|page=5|via = British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription }}—and held the seat until 1857 when he did not seek re-election. He later attempted to regain the seat as a Liberal in 1868, but was unsuccessful.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}{{cite book|author1=Pink, William Dumcombe|author2=Beavan, Alfred B.|title=The Parliamentary Representation of Lancashire (County and Borough) 1258-1885 with Biographical and Genealogical Notices of the Members|date=1889|publisher=Henry Gray|location=London|page=317|url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030494987#page/n7/mode/1up/search/william+eccles|accessdate=14 April 2018}}

Feilden was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 3rd Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, a Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, and a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire.