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Edward Wortley Montagu (8 February 1678 – 22 January 1761) was an English coal-owner and politician. He was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, husband of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu.
11 de dic. de 2021 · Para evitar un matrimonio arreglado, se fugó cuando tenía 23 años y se casó con Edward Wortley Montagu, nieto del primer conde de Sandwich.
Edward Wortley Montagu (1713-1776), esposo de Lady Mary, fue embajador inglés en la corte otomana. Todo el periplo quedó documentado en detalle por las cartas que Mary Montagu envió a su hermana, a sus amistades londinenses, al escritor Alexander Pope y al Abad Antonio Conti, entre otros.
Contents. Edward Wortley Montagu. British politician. Learn about this topic in these articles: marriage to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. In Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. …Henry Fielding), she eloped with Edward Wortley Montagu, a Whig member of Parliament, rather than accept a marriage that had been arranged by her father.
British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire and MP for Huntingdon and Peterborough. Married Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu in 1712 after eloping. Father of Edward Wortley-Montagu, the traveller (q.q.v.).
Edward Wortley Montagu, born 1750, illegitimate son of the traveller, diplomat and gambler of the same name, has a memorial tablet in the west cloister of Westminster Abbey.
Edward Wortley Montagu had been a prominent opponent of Sir Robert Walpole, but was too old to take an active part in politics after 1754, though he retained his seat for Peterborough. The seat at Bossiney which he commanded was given to his worthless son, Edward, to enable him to escape from his creditors.
