Edward Wortley-Montagu (1713 - 1776)

Born 15 May 1713 in Warncliffe, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Died 29 Apr 1776 at age 62 in Padua, Italy

Biography

He married a woman, "who aspired to no higher a character than that of an industrious washerwoman..." "He had wives of almost every nation." "Wortley, considering his wives as bad travelling companions, generally left them behind him." (Bowen)

"...without male issue, a very large estate would revert to the second son of Lord Bute... Wortley was determined, if possible, to defeat their expectations. He resolved to return to England and marry" "...he commissioned a friend to advertise for any young decent woman, who might be in a pregnant state... Several ladies answered it... one was selected." He died on his way back to England. (Bowen)

Sources

• Isobel Grundy, ‘Montagu, Edward Wortley (1713–1776)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 17 May 2017. THis is a subscription site but access is free of charge to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.

• Wikipedia:Edward_Wortley_Montagu_(traveller)

• Montagu, Mary Wortley. The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (London, 1803) Vol. 1, Page 12

• Bowen's Boston News-Letter and City Record (Abel Bowen, Boston, May 20, 1826) Vol. 1, Page 256-7