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
But the artwork's disappearance was only noted in 1957, when Mary Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, visited one of Harvard University's galleries - and saw it on display.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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
Early In the 14th century Simon de Montagu, an ancestor of the earls of Salisbury, quartered with his own arms a coat of azure with a golden griffon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various
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