Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester [SEP] father
Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester
Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester (c. 1710 – 10 May 1762) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 until 1739 when he succeeded to the peerage as Duke of Manchester.
Montagu was the son of Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester and his wife Dodington Greville, daughter of Robert Greville, 4th Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court.
Montagu was returned as MP for Huntingdonshire at the 1734 British general election. He vacated his seat when
Rich (d. 1641/2), daughter of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick. (Lady Anne Rich was Manchester's second wife, and the mother of his heir.) Of their children,
- Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester (b. 1634) was father of the 1st Duke of Manchester.
- Lady Anne Montagu (d. circa 1689) married her second cousin (as his 2nd wife) Robert Rich, 5th Earl of Warwick, the son of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland (a