George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester

"Kim"
Montagu as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, April 1882

George Victor Drogo Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester, etc. (Kimbolton, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, 17 June 1853 – Tandragee Castle, County Armagh, 18 August 1892), styled The Honourable George V. D. Montagu from 1853 to 1855 and Viscount Mandeville from 1855 to 1890, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.

Background

Montagu was the son of William Drogo Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, and Countess Louise von Alten.

Political career

In 1877 Montagu was elected to the House of Commons for Huntingdonshire, a seat he held until 1880. Apart from his political career he also achieved the rank of Captain in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. In 1890 succeeded his father in the dukedom and took his seat in the House of Lords. He was declared bankrupt the same year.

Family

On 22 May 1876, Manchester married Consuelo Yznaga,[1] the daughter of a wealthy Cuban plantation owner and a renowned beauty. It was widely accepted that he had married her for her money and she him for his titles. One of Consuelo Yznaga's closest friends, Edith Wharton, was said to have incorporated certain aspects of her friend's marriage in her unfinished novel, The Buccaneers. Their union produced a son and twin daughters:

Manchester died in August 1892, aged only 39, and was succeeded in his titles by his son William.

Styles of address

Notes

  1. "LORD MANDEVILLE'S WEDDING.;". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2015., Retrieved 5 December 2012.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Edward Fellowes
Sir Henry Carstairs Pelly
Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire
18771880
With: Edward Fellowes
Succeeded by
William Fellowes
Lord Douglas Gordon
Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by
William Drogo Montagu
Duke of Manchester
1890–1892
Succeeded by
William Angus Drogo Montagu
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