Sir Edward Wortley Montagu
- Sir Edward Wortley Montagu
Sir Edward Wortley Montagu (8 February 1678 – 22 January 1761) was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, husband of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu.
Son of Sidney Wortley Montagu and grandson of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, a Cambridge graduate and lawyer, Wortley Montagu is best known for his correspondence with, seduction of, and elopement with the aristocratic writer, Mary, daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull.
Montagu himself was a prominent Whig politician, eventually becoming Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and from 1716–1718 Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in Constantinople. As Ambassador, he was charged with pursuing the ongoing negotiations between the Ottomans and the Habsburg Empire.
Upon his return from Constantinople, he fell out with the Whig hierarchy, but remained a Member of Parliament until his death in 1761.
References
* The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Robert Halsband - Clarendon Press - 1956
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