Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell

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Frederick Montague, 1928

Frederick Montague, 1st Baron Amwell (born October 8, 1876 in Clerkenwell , † October 15, 1966 ) was a British politician ( Labor Party ).

Life and activity

Montague was a son of John Montague and his wife Mary Ann, Manderson. According to the Labor Who's Who of 1924, Montague received “no significant” education and training in his youth. Instead, he worked as a newspaper boy and commercial assistant from a young age. He later worked as a freelance journalist, as a copywriter for London advertising agencies and as a political agent (political agent) for the Labor Party. Politically, he found a home in the Labor Party.

From 1915 Montague took part as a private of the 18th Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps in the First World War, in which he was used in Belgium, France, Egypt and Palestine and in 1917 was promoted to Lieutenant of the 1st Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment. In the last phase of the war he worked at Egyptian military schools. In 1919 he left the military.

From 1919 to 1925 Montague took for the first time a political office as a member of the Islington City Council (Islington Borough Council).

In the British general election of 1923 Montague was elected as a candidate for the Labor Party in the Islington West constituency as a member of the House of Commons , the British Parliament, to which he initially belonged for eight years until 1931. After losing his seat in the 1931 general election to the opposing candidate of the Conservative Party, Patrick William Donner , he managed to return to the House of Commons in the 1935 general election , in which he again won a majority in his old constituency This time he belonged for twelve years until 1947. Montague was a member of the British Parliament for a period of twenty-four years for a total of twenty years (in two periods of eight and twelve years respectively).

In the government of Ramsey MacDonal, Montague served as Undersecretary of State for Aviation from 1929 to 1931. During the Second World War Montague was a member of the all-party government led by Winston Churchill , in which he was Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Transportation from 1940 to 1941 and Parliamentary Secretary in the Department of Aircraft Production from 1941 to 1942.

In 1947 Montague was raised to hereditary nobility due to his services as Baron Amwell , of Islington in County of London, and thereby received a seat in the House of Lords .

family

On November 25, 1911, Montague married Constance Mary († 1964), a daughter of James Craig of Runcorn, with whom he had a son and two daughters. His son, Frederick Montague, 2nd Baron Amwell , inherited his title of nobility.

Private

Frederick Montague was also a committed amateur magician. He has created tricks and published several articles in the English magical magazine Abracadabra .

literature

  • British Political Year Book , 1947, p. 118.
  • Dod's Parliamentary Companion , 1967, p. 426

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: The Labor who's who 1924: a biographical directory to the national and local leaders in the labor and co-operative movement , 1924, p. 118 where it is in his biogram under the heading "Educ." means "None to speak of".
  2. ↑ among others: 3 Slants For Mind Men, issue No. 848, page 245; All Yours !, issue No. 417, page 6; Anagram Book Test, No. 201, page 293; Another Finis To Finis, No. 850, page 278; Another Magic Seven, No. 107, page 35
personal data
SURNAME Montague, Frederick, 1st Baron Amwell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British politician (Labor Party)
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Clerkenwell
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1966