Montagu family, Dukes of Manchester

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Date:	1200-2000
History:	Henry Montagu (c.1563-1642), third son of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton (Northamptonshire) (see Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry), acquired Kimbolton (Huntingdonshire) in 1615, and was created Earl of Manchester in 1626. The 2nd Earl (1602-71) married in 1626, as his second wife, Anne Rich (d. 1642), eldest daughter of the second Earl of Warwick. On the death of the 4th Earl of Warwick in 1673 the Montagu family succeeded to the Leighs estate in Essex (sold to Guy's Hospital c.1750). The 4th Earl of Manchester (c.1662-1722) was created Duke of Manchester in 1719. In 1863, following the death of his grandmother Lady Olivia Bernard Sparrow (see below), the 7th Duke (1823-90) inherited estates in County Armagh (Tanderagee, etc), Huntingdonshire (Brampton) and Cambridgeshire. Kimbolton Castle was given up after the Second World War and is now a school. Sir John Bernard, 2nd Bt, purchased Brampton Park in 1653. Sir John Bernard (c.1695-1766) married in 1737 Mary, daughter and heir of Sir Francis St John, Bt (d. 1756), of Thorpe (Northamptonshire), through whom estates in Northamptonshire (Thorpe), Essex (Kelvedon, etc), Cambridgeshire (Doddington) and County Armagh (Tanderagee, etc) were inherited. (Property in Suffolk (Stoke-by-Clare) and Staffordshire appears to have been sold about 1756.) On the death of Sir Robert Bernard, 5th Bt, in 1789 the Thorpe estate was sold, but the estates in Huntingdonshire, Essex, Cambridgeshire and Ireland passed to Robert Bernard Sparrow. He married Lady Olivia Acheson, daughter of the 1st Earl of Gosford, and died in 1805, leaving an only daughter, Millicent, who married the 6th Duke of Manchester (1799-1855) and died in 1848. Estates in 1883: Hunts 13,835 acres, Cambs 1,124 acres, Beds 55 acres, Co Armagh 12,298 acres, total 27,312 acres worth £40,360 a year.
Places:	Bermuda New Zealand Hertfordshire Virginia Ballymore, County Armagh Bloxwich, Staffordshire Brampton, Huntingdonshire Cornhill, London Doddington, Cambridgeshire Dogsthorpe, Northamptonshire Ellington, Huntingdonshire Holborn, Middlesex Houghton, Huntingdonshire Kelvedon, Essex Keyston, Huntingdonshire Kimbolton, Huntingdonshire Knowle, Warwickshire Little Leighs, Essex Little Stukeley, Huntingdonshire London Longthorpe, Northamptonshire March, Cambridgeshire Mucking, Essex Portadown, County Armagh Shenstone, Staffordshire St Ives, Huntingdonshire Stoke by Clare, Suffolk Swineshead, Bedfordshire Tanderagee, County Armagh Tanderagee Castle, County Armagh Thorney, Cambridgeshire Thorpe Hall, Northamptonshire Walsall, Staffordshire West Dereham, Norfolk Westminster, Middlesex Wimblington, Cambridgeshire Pertonhall, Bedfordshire Grafham, Huntingdonshire Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire Wyton, Huntingdonshire
Sources of authority:	Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Principal family and estate collections L-Z, 1999
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F178148 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F10973 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	13th-20th cent: Hunts (Brampton, Kimbolton, etc) deeds, legal and trust papers, manorial records, rentals,accounts, estate, household and Montagu family papers 13th-20th cent, Essex (Kelvedon, Little Leighs, etc) deeds, manorial records and estate papers 14th-19th cent, Northants (Thorpe Hall in Longthorpe, etc) deeds, manorial records, estate and household papers c13th-18th cent, misc deeds and estate papers for Beds, Cambs (Doddington, March, etc), Herts, Staffs and Suffolk (Stoke by Clare, etc) 13th-19th cent and Co Armagh (Portadown, Tanderagee, etc) 18th-19th cent, rentals for Cornhill (London) 1694 and Hyde Park Corner (Middlesex) 1782, Holborn (Middlesex) building leases 1639-51, New Zealand estate papers 1858-72, London household accounts 19th cent-1911 and papers rel to the Bernard, Rich, St John and Sparrow families from 16th cent, with Knowle (Warwicks) manorial accounts 1371-72, Westminster Abbey acquisitions roll 1509, map of Thorney Abbey (Cambs) grounds 1609, valor 1510-11 and accounts 1529-30 of the Earl of Ormonde's estates, etc	Huntingdonshire Archives	ddM, ddMB, BB	NRA 902 Montagu See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69a]
2	1864-1867: Park Farm, Kimbolton (Hunts) bailiff's letter book	Huntingdonshire Archives		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69b]
3	1822-1850: Park Farm, Brampton (Hunts) vouchers	Huntingdonshire Archives		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69c]
4	1859-1866: Kimbolton Castle (Hunts) provision books	Huntingdonshire Archives		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69d]
5	1612-1740: misc Cambs (Doddington and Wimblington) deeds and papers 1612-1740, incl Wimblington plan 1639	Cambridgeshire Archives	L.39.1-3	NRA 3503 Cambs Misc See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69a]
6	1636-1644: Norfolk (West Dereham, etc) estate accounts	Norfolk Record Office		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69e]
7	1673-1780: Co Armagh (Ballymore, Tanderagee, etc) deeds and papers	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D 2529	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69f]
8	17th-20th cent: Co Armagh (Ballymore, Portadown, Tanderagee, etc) leases, estate maps, accounts, corresp and papers	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D 1248	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69g]
9	1750-1791: Tanderagee (Co Armagh) estate maps 1750, 1791	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D 720	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69h]
10	1701-1852: Co Armagh (Ballymore, Portadown, Tanderagee, etc) estate maps	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D 727	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69h]
11	1874-1916: Irish Land Commission papers rel to the Co Armagh estates of the Montagu family	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D 935	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69i]
12	1845-1855: Tanderagee Castle (Co Armagh) household accounts	Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)	D 2862	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69j]
13	1856-1868: misc Co Armagh (Portadown, etc) legal and estate papers (7th Earl of Sandwich as trustee)	Huntingdonshire Archives	HINCH 3/7/9-28	NRA 5472 Montagu
14	c1629-1671: Montagu family papers mainly rel to Hunts affairs	Huntingdonshire Archives		See Annual Report 1986 p18
15	c1613-1671: misc Montagu family letters and papers	Parliamentary Archives	MAN	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69r]
16	16th-17th cent: misc Montagu family papers (copies)	Parliamentary Archives	WIL	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69r]
17	1620-1635: letter book of 1st Earl of Manchester (d1642) rel to Customs 1620-21, with related accounts and papers 1620-35	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 4147	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69k]
18	1640-1647: corresp and papers of the 2nd Earl of Manchester (1602-71) as Speaker of the House of Lords	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 34253	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69l]
19	1803-1854: corresp of Lady Olivia Bernard Sparrow (grandmother of the 7th Duke of Manchester)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Egerton MSS 1964-66	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69m]
20	1535-1539: Court of Augmentations papers of 1st Baron Rich (1496-1567)	Manchester University: University of Manchester Library		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69o]
21	c1620-1627: Irish corresp and papers of Sir Nathaniel Rich (d1636)	National Library of Ireland	MSS 8013-14, 18638-66	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69p]
22	c1615-1634: corresp and papers of Sir Nathaniel Rich rel to Bermuda and Virginia	Bermuda Government Archives		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69q]
23	c1605-1624: corresp and papers of Sir Nathaniel Rich mainly rel to Virginia	New York Public Library: Manuscripts and Archives Division		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69q]
24	c1689-1699: letters and papers of the 1st Duke of Manchester (d1722)	Huntingdonshire Archives		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69s]
25	1697-1737: diplomatic and other corresp and papers of and rel to the 1st Duke of Manchester	Yale University Libraries: Beinecke Library	Osborn MSS fo. 37	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69t]
26	1736-1770: letters from George Montagu to Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (from the Montagu family papers)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MSS 70987-89	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69u]
27	1779-1788: diplomatic and naval intelligence papers of the 4th Duke of Manchester (1737-1788)	University of Michigan: William L Clements Library		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69x]
28	1778-1779: diary of naval movements (from the papers of the 4th Duke)	Portsmouth History Centre		See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69v]
29	1779-1782: French naval intelligence (from the papers of the 4th Duke)	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng. misc. d. 704, Eng. lett. c. 251	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69w]
30	15th cent: illustrated armorial roll by John Rous (d1491) (from the Montaguu family collections)	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 48976	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69n]
31	1629: Parliamentary journal	Parliamentary Archives	MAN	See HMC Principal family and estate collections L-W, 1999 [69r]
32	early 17th cent: (copies) papers rel to Virginia and Bermuda	British Library, Manuscript Collections	RP 420