Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu

The Right Honourable
The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Scott as caricatured by Théobald Chartran in Vanity Fair, September 1881
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
1885 – 1905
Hereditary Peerage
Succeeded by John Douglas-Scott-Montagu
Personal details
Born Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu
(1832-11-05)5 November 1832
Died 4 November 1905(1905-11-04) (aged 72)
Political party Conservative
Spouse(s) Cecily Susan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley
Children 3
Parents Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch
Lady Charlotte Thynne

Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu DL, JP (5 November 1832 – 4 November 1905), styled Lord Henry Scott until 1885, was a British Conservative Party politician.

Background and education

Scott was the second son of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Charlotte Anne Thynne, daughter of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath. He was educated at Eton.

Political career

Scott sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire from 1861 to 1868[1] and for South Hampshire from 1868 to 1884.[2] He was official Verderer of the New Forest from 1890 to 1892, and Honorary Colonel of the 4th Hampshire Rifle Volunteers from 1885. In 1885 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, in the County of Southampton.

Family

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu married the Honourable Cecily Susan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, daughter of John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe, in 1865. In 1899 Lady Montagu gave ₤1 to the Women's Suffrage Auxiliary Fund of the Englishwoman's Review.[3] They had two sons and one daughter, the Honourable Rachel Cecily Douglas-Scott-Montagu, wife of Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster.

References

  1. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)
  2. ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
  3. ↑ Boucherett, Jessie (16 January 1899). "The Women's Suffrage Auxiliary Fund". The Englishwoman's Review. 30: 29–30 – via HathiTrust.
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Allen Eliott-Lockhart		 Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire
1861 – 1868		 Constituency abolished
Preceded by
Henry Hamlyn-Fane
Sir Jervoise Clarke-Jervois, Bt		 Member of Parliament for South Hampshire
1868 – 1884
With: Hon. William Cowper to 1880
Francis Compton from 1880		 Succeeded by
Francis Compton
Sir Frederick Fitzwygram, Bt
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
1885 – 1905		 Succeeded by
John Douglas-Scott-Montagu


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