Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British duke
Was Politician 
From United Kingdom 
Type Politics 
Gender male
Birth 1 January 1710
Death 10 May 1762
(aged 52 years)
Family
Father: Charles Montagu1st Duke of Manchester
Children: George Montagu4th Duke of ManchesterLord Charles Montagu

Robert Montagu, 3rd Duke of Manchester (c. 1710 – 10 May 1762) was the son of Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester.

He was MP for Huntingdonshire 1734–1739.

He married Harriet Dunch, daughter and co-heiress of Edmund Dunch by his wife Elizabeth Godfrey, a noted beauty and a sister-in-law of Hugh Boscawen, 1st Viscount Falmouth and niece of the great Duke of Marlborough on 3 April 1735 and they had four children:

  • George Montagu, 4th Duke of Manchester (1737–1788)
  • Lord Charles Greville Montagu (1741–1783)
  • Lady Caroline Montagu (d. 1818), married Charles Herbert Dormer
  • Lady Louisa Montagu, died unmarried

Styles of address

  • 1710–1719: The Honourable Robert Montagu
  • 1719–1734: Lord Robert Montagu
  • 1734–1739: Lord Robert Montagu MP
  • 1739–1762: His Grace The Duke of Manchester
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