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George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (also spelt George Montague) PC KB (c. 1684 – 9 May 1739), of Horton, Northamptonshire, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1715 when he became a peer.
Politician, poet. Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, KG, PC, FRS (16 April 1661 – 19 May 1715) was an English statesman and poet. He was the grandson of the 1st Earl of Manchester and was eventually ennobled himself, first as Baron Halifax in 1700 and later as Earl of Halifax in 1714.
15 de may. de 2024 · Charles Montagu, 1st earl of Halifax was a Whig statesman, a financial genius who created several of the key elements of England’s system of public finance. He was elected to Parliament in 1689 and appointed a lord of the Treasury three years later. By devising a system of guaranteed government
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A member of the prominent Montagu family, he was the son of George Montagu, younger son of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester (see the Duke of Manchester). Montagu had already been created Baron Halifax , of Halifax in the County of York, in 1700, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to his nephew George, son and heir of ...
1 de may. de 2022 · George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax PC (c. 1684 – 9 May 1739), was a British politician. Halifax was the son of Edward Montagu, younger son of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, and Elizabeth Pelham. Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, was his uncle.
- circa 1684
- Douglas Arthur Kellner
- May 1, 2022
At George I’s accession he was appointed to the greatest sinecure in England, the auditorship of the Exchequer, worth £7,000 a year, by his uncle, Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, then 1st lord of the Treasury, to whose barony he succeeded in 1715, the earldom of Halifax being at the same time revived in his favour. He died 9 May 1739.
23 de oct. de 2014 · Examining the career of George Montagu Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax and First Lord of the Board of Trade and Plantations (1716–1771), it explores colonial planners and policymakers during the political hiatus between the age of Walpole and the age of imperial crisis.
