Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
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The Right Honourable The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu |
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Lord Montagu on his 80th birthday
by Allan Warren |
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| Member of the House of Lords for Conservative Hereditary Peers |
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In office 11 November 1999 – 31 August 2015 |
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| Preceded by | House of Lords Act 1999 |
| Succeeded by | 14th Lord Fairfax of Cameron |
| Member of the House of Lords as Baron Montagu of Beaulieu |
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In office 7 November 1947 – 11 November 1999 |
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| Preceded by | John Douglas-Scott-Montagu |
| Succeeded by | House of Lords Act 1999 |
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Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu 20 October 1926 London, England |
| Died | 31 August 2015 (aged 88) Beaulieu Estate, New Forest |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) |
Belinda Crossley (m. 1958; div. 1974) Fiona Herbert (m. 1974) |
| Military service | |
| Service/branch | Grenadier Guards |
| Years of service | 1945–1948 |
| Rank | Lieutenant |
Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (20 October 1926 – 31 August 2015) was an English Conservative politician well known in Britain for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause célèbre in British gay history following his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for homosexual sex, a charge he denied. Having inherited his title at the age of two, he held his peerage for the third longest time (86 years and 155 days) anyone has held a British peerage (the others being the 7th Marquess Townshend at 88 years, and the 13th Lord Sinclair at 87 years).
Montagu was born at his grandparents’ home in Thurloe Square, South Kensington, London and inherited his barony in 1929 at the age of two, when his father John was killed in an accident. His mother was his father's second wife, Alice Crake (1895–1996). He attended St Peter's Court, a prep school at Broadstairs in Kent, then Ridley College in Canada, Eton College and finally New College, Oxford.
He served as a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards, including service in Palestine before the end of the British Mandate. On coming of age, Lord Montagu immediately took his seat in the House of Lords and swiftly made his maiden speech on the subject of Palestine. He read Modern History at Oxford, but during his second year an altercation between the Bullingdon Club, of which he was a member, and the Oxford University Dramatic Society led to his room being wrecked, and he felt obliged to leave.
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