Montagu Burgoyne (1750 - 1836)

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Died 1 Jun 1836 at about age 86 in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom

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Montagu Burgoyne, Esquire, of St. Marylebone, married Elizabeth Harvey, a minor, with consent of her guardian, Richard Benyon, Esquire, on 13 October 1780 at the Church of St. George in Hanover Square, London. ^[1]

Montagu died in 1836 at Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland.^[2]

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Note: Burgoyne, Montagu (1750?1836), politician, was born on 19 July 1750, the second son of Sir Roger Burgoyne, sixth baronet (bap. 1710, d. 1780), politician, of Sutton, Bedfordshire, and Lady Frances Montagu (d. 1788), daughter of George Montagu, first earl of Halifax. His elder brother, Sir John Burgoyne, seventh baronet (1739?1785), served in the British army in India; his cousin, also Sir John Burgoyne (1723?1792), commanded the British forces at the surrender at Saratoga in 1777. After attending Henry Newcome's school at Hackney he was admitted to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 27 October 1768, graduating MA in 1774. During the North administration he served as chamberlain of the till office in the exchequer, a sinecure which provided him with an annual salary of £1660. He was in addition for many years a verderer of Epping Forest and was active in Essex local politics, although his bid in 1810 to become the county's MP ended, after a dogged campaign, with defeat by JohnArcher Houblon. Burgoyne offered his views of the event in his Account of Proceedings at the Late Election for Essex (1810). Other publications from this time included his Letter on the Necessity of a Reform in Parliament (1809) and Speech to theFreeholders of Essex (1812).

On 30 October 1780 Burgoyne married Elizabeth Harvey, daughter and heir of Eliab Harvey, MP for Dulwich. The marriage, a ?pattern of conjugal affection? (GM, 550), produced two sons, who died in infancy, and two daughters, Frances-Elizabeth (d.1818) and Elizabeth (d. before 1836). Both husband and wife were described as well-respected members of the community near Mark Hall, Harlow, Essex, where they resided. Burgoyne later published a Collection of Psalms and Hymns (1827) and An Address to the Governors of Public Charity Schools (1830), in which he proposed improvements to the current system of charity education. In the same work he also advocated the allocation of land to the labouring poor of Bedford, Huntingdon, and Cambridge, part of a wider campaign which made him ?one of the earliest and most untiring friends? of the land allotment system (ibid.). He died at East Sheen, Surrey, where he was then living, on 6 March 1836, and was survived by his wife.

[Anon.], rev. Philip Carter

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GM, 2nd ser., 5 (1836), 550 · Venn, Alum. Cant. · R. S. Lea, ?Burgoyne, Sir Roger?, HoP, Commons, 1715?54 · Burke, Peerage

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W. Sussex RO, letters to duke of Richmond

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1. ↑ Montagu Burgoyne Esquire in the Westminster, London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1935 https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/5683921?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a22672b752f31514468524547752f505a6e2f30554c54772f6f516f76332f792f4e48565a366378744e6c51593d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d City of Westminster Archives Centre; London, England; Westminster Church of England Parish Registers; Reference: STG/PR/7/6 https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/858347:61867
2. ↑ "British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPC5-RHGQ : 17 April 2019), Montagu Burgoyne, Esq, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom; records extracted FamilySearch and images digitized by FindMyPast; citing Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom, 2 Apr 1836, The British Newspaper Archive, Ireland; FHL microfilm .

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