Montagu
Americannoun
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Ashley Montague Francis Ashley Montagu, 1905–1999, U.S. anthropologist and writer, born in England.
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Charles, 1st Earl of Halifax, 1661–1715, British statesman: prime minister 1714–15.
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Lady Mary Wortley Mary Pierrepont, 1689–1762, English author.
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Charles. See (Earl of) Halifax
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Lady Mary Wortley. 1689–1762, English writer, noted for her Letters from the East (1763)
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Montagu Norman, the governor of the Bank of England for a quarter-century after World War I, lived by the maxim: “Never explain, never excuse.”
From MarketWatch • Feb. 3, 2026
Montagu wrote in his diary that he had been warned "that it was absolutely necessary to get him on my side, for Sankaran Nair wielded more influence than any other Indian".
From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025
In a 1968 Psychology Today article, celebrated anthropologist Ashley Montagu incorrectly, but forcibly, argued that “it appears probable that the ordinary aggressiveness of a normal XY male is derived from his Y chromosome.”
From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2023
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of Britain’s eighteenth-century ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, complained that the flavors were too intense.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
When "Mrs. Powles" had gone, which we guessed by the extinguishing of the lights, the handsome face and form of "Harry Montagu" appeared.
From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence
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