Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu, 10th Earl of Sandwich went by his second name, Victor. He was called as 'Hinch'. He was an MP for South Dorset & member of the Conservative Party.
Victor was eldest son of The 9th Earl of Sandwich and his wife, Alberta Sturges. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1926, he joined the 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, as a Lieutenant.
Victor, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, married the artist Rosemary Peto (1916–1998), only daughter of Major Ralph Peto and a goddaughter of Queen Maud of Norway, on 27 July 1934. They had 7 children and ultimately divorced in 1958.
Lord Hinchingbrooke was married a second time to Lady Anne Holland-Martin (née Cavendish), the youngest daughter of The 9th Duke of Devonshire, on 7 June 1962, but they, too, divorced (1965).
His youngest son has since alleged that his father sexually abused him on an almost daily basis from the ages of seven to eleven. In addition to his son's allegations of abuse, in 2015, Freedom of Information requests revealed that Victor Montagu was let off with a caution by police and the director of public prosecutions in 1972 for indecently assaulting a boy for a duration of nearly two years.
He succeeded as The 10th Earl of Sandwich upon his father's death on 15 June 1962. Viscount Hinchingbrooke succeeded to his father's titles and automatically joined the House of Lords, meaning he could no longer sit in the House of Commons, and as such resigned his seat.
Lord Sandwich, as he had become, disclaimed his peerages in 1964, however, under the Peerage Act 1963. As Victor Montagu, he unsuccessfully stood as the Conservative candidate at Accrington at the 1964 general election. Although he did not sit in the House of Commons again, he was President of the Anti-Common Market League from 1962 to 1984; he also joined the Conservative Monday Club in 1964 and wrote The Conservative Dilemma in 1970.
Victor Montagu eventually developed Alzheimer's Disease and died in 1995, aged 88. He is interred in the Montagu family vault.
Victor was eldest son of The 9th Earl of Sandwich and his wife, Alberta Sturges. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1926, he joined the 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, as a Lieutenant.
Victor, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, married the artist Rosemary Peto (1916–1998), only daughter of Major Ralph Peto and a goddaughter of Queen Maud of Norway, on 27 July 1934. They had 7 children and ultimately divorced in 1958.
Lord Hinchingbrooke was married a second time to Lady Anne Holland-Martin (née Cavendish), the youngest daughter of The 9th Duke of Devonshire, on 7 June 1962, but they, too, divorced (1965).
His youngest son has since alleged that his father sexually abused him on an almost daily basis from the ages of seven to eleven. In addition to his son's allegations of abuse, in 2015, Freedom of Information requests revealed that Victor Montagu was let off with a caution by police and the director of public prosecutions in 1972 for indecently assaulting a boy for a duration of nearly two years.
He succeeded as The 10th Earl of Sandwich upon his father's death on 15 June 1962. Viscount Hinchingbrooke succeeded to his father's titles and automatically joined the House of Lords, meaning he could no longer sit in the House of Commons, and as such resigned his seat.
Lord Sandwich, as he had become, disclaimed his peerages in 1964, however, under the Peerage Act 1963. As Victor Montagu, he unsuccessfully stood as the Conservative candidate at Accrington at the 1964 general election. Although he did not sit in the House of Commons again, he was President of the Anti-Common Market League from 1962 to 1984; he also joined the Conservative Monday Club in 1964 and wrote The Conservative Dilemma in 1970.
Victor Montagu eventually developed Alzheimer's Disease and died in 1995, aged 88. He is interred in the Montagu family vault.
Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu, 10th Earl of Sandwich went by his second name, Victor. He was called as 'Hinch'. He was an MP for South Dorset & member of the Conservative Party.
Victor was eldest son of The 9th Earl of Sandwich and his wife, Alberta Sturges. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1926, he joined the 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, as a Lieutenant.
Victor, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, married the artist Rosemary Peto (1916–1998), only daughter of Major Ralph Peto and a goddaughter of Queen Maud of Norway, on 27 July 1934. They had 7 children and ultimately divorced in 1958.
Lord Hinchingbrooke was married a second time to Lady Anne Holland-Martin (née Cavendish), the youngest daughter of The 9th Duke of Devonshire, on 7 June 1962, but they, too, divorced (1965).
His youngest son has since alleged that his father sexually abused him on an almost daily basis from the ages of seven to eleven. In addition to his son's allegations of abuse, in 2015, Freedom of Information requests revealed that Victor Montagu was let off with a caution by police and the director of public prosecutions in 1972 for indecently assaulting a boy for a duration of nearly two years.
He succeeded as The 10th Earl of Sandwich upon his father's death on 15 June 1962. Viscount Hinchingbrooke succeeded to his father's titles and automatically joined the House of Lords, meaning he could no longer sit in the House of Commons, and as such resigned his seat.
Lord Sandwich, as he had become, disclaimed his peerages in 1964, however, under the Peerage Act 1963. As Victor Montagu, he unsuccessfully stood as the Conservative candidate at Accrington at the 1964 general election. Although he did not sit in the House of Commons again, he was President of the Anti-Common Market League from 1962 to 1984; he also joined the Conservative Monday Club in 1964 and wrote The Conservative Dilemma in 1970.
Victor Montagu eventually developed Alzheimer's Disease and died in 1995, aged 88. He is interred in the Montagu family vault.
Victor was eldest son of The 9th Earl of Sandwich and his wife, Alberta Sturges. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1926, he joined the 5th (Huntingdonshire) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, as a Lieutenant.
Victor, Viscount Hinchingbrooke, married the artist Rosemary Peto (1916–1998), only daughter of Major Ralph Peto and a goddaughter of Queen Maud of Norway, on 27 July 1934. They had 7 children and ultimately divorced in 1958.
Lord Hinchingbrooke was married a second time to Lady Anne Holland-Martin (née Cavendish), the youngest daughter of The 9th Duke of Devonshire, on 7 June 1962, but they, too, divorced (1965).
His youngest son has since alleged that his father sexually abused him on an almost daily basis from the ages of seven to eleven. In addition to his son's allegations of abuse, in 2015, Freedom of Information requests revealed that Victor Montagu was let off with a caution by police and the director of public prosecutions in 1972 for indecently assaulting a boy for a duration of nearly two years.
He succeeded as The 10th Earl of Sandwich upon his father's death on 15 June 1962. Viscount Hinchingbrooke succeeded to his father's titles and automatically joined the House of Lords, meaning he could no longer sit in the House of Commons, and as such resigned his seat.
Lord Sandwich, as he had become, disclaimed his peerages in 1964, however, under the Peerage Act 1963. As Victor Montagu, he unsuccessfully stood as the Conservative candidate at Accrington at the 1964 general election. Although he did not sit in the House of Commons again, he was President of the Anti-Common Market League from 1962 to 1984; he also joined the Conservative Monday Club in 1964 and wrote The Conservative Dilemma in 1970.
Victor Montagu eventually developed Alzheimer's Disease and died in 1995, aged 88. He is interred in the Montagu family vault.
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In loving memory of Alexander Victor Edward Paulet Montagu
Viscount Hinchingbrooke MP
22 May 1906
25 February 1995
And his sister
Lady Elizabeth Montagu
Novelist
4 July 1917
10 January 2006
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