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548:'s lines 'To my Sister' and 'Anecdote for Fathers'. By his second wife he had three sons; and two sons and a daughter by his third wife. All his children but two (his daughter and one of his sons by his third wife) died in his lifetime. His third wife, whose maiden name was Benson, was the daughter of a wine merchant of York, and in her youth had known
183:). Montagu was one of eleven members that formed a sub-committee to "superintend the Publication of Tracts, Sermons, and similar modes of influencing public opinion" about the humane treatment of animals. Montagu was a friend of Revd Broome for many years before the SPCA was founded. In 1815 Broome dedicated his book
135:. In July 1825 he gave evidence before the chancery commission, and suggested a radical reform. In Trinity term 1835 Montagu was made K.C., and soon afterwards accountant-general in bankruptcy. His tenure of this office, which lasted until 1846, he established the liability of the
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175:, Montagu attended a meeting on 16 June 1824 at Old Slaughter's Coffee House in St. Martin's Lane, London that created the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (in 1840 by royal assent from
131:, 1806–7, to a commissionership in bankruptcy, Montagu set himself to reform the bankruptcy law. He also founded in 1808 the Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge upon the Punishment of Death, with
74:, but continued to reside at Cambridge until 1795, when, having by a technical loophole lost the portion of inheritance intended for him by his father, he came to London to read for the bar.
38:. He was significantly involved in reforms to bankruptcy laws of Britain. He served as Accountant-General in Bankruptcy between 1835 and 1846. He was highly influenced by the writings of
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717:(London: Cassell, 1961), 23. On the wider role of the RSPCA in nineteenth century England also see Brian Harrison, "Animals and the State in nineteenth-century England,"
124:. Montagu never became eminent as a pleader, but he gradually acquired a practice in chancery and bankruptcy; his leisure time he devoted to legal and literary work.
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Montagu published a long series of pamphlets denouncing the death penalty (1811–30), and two on the emancipation of the Jews (1833–34). Other works were:
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364:; only the first, however, dealing with Bacon's conduct in Peacham's case, appeared. Montagu's edition was effectively superseded by
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A Digest of the
Bankrupt Laws, with a Collection of the Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Law and Equity upon that subject
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A Summary of the Law of Set Off, with an
Appendix of Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Law and Equity upon that subject
407:, a fragment of an intended major work that he had on hand for thirty years, printed for private circulation, probably in 1847.
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The New
Bankrupt Court Act, arranged with a copious Index and Observations upon the Erroneous Principle on which it is Founded
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A Digest of
Pleading in Equity, with Notes of the Cases decided in different Courts of Equity upon that subject
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Enquiries respecting the Proposed Alteration of the Law of Copyright as it affects Authors and Universities
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he edited, in 16 vols., between 1825 and 1837. He attempted to rehabilitate Bacon's character as a man.
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An Enquiry respecting the Expediency of Limiting the Creditor's power to refuse a Bankrupt's Certificate
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A Digest of the Law of Partnership, with a Collection of Cases decided in the Courts of Law and Equity
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307:, London, 2 vols.; 2nd edit. 1844. Montagu also published several series of bankruptcy reports: with
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Lectures delivered at the Mechanics' Institution upon the connexion between Knowledge and Happiness
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Some Observations upon the Bill for the Improvement of the Bankrupt Laws
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