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Edward Wortley Montagu (traveller)

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30: 19: 142: 497: 470: 100:, deserted, went up country, and found employment in the vineyards, but returning to Oporto in charge of some asses, he was arrested at the instance of the British consul, brought back to his ship, identified and restored to his parents by the master. 88:, and was with difficulty 'reduced to the humble condition of a school-boy.' He decamped again in August 1727 and was not recovered for some months. Two similar escapades are mentioned by his tutor, Forster, chaplain to the 748: 138:. He left the army in 1748. He thereafter traveled in various parts for many years, writing brief diary notes of his travels along with occasional sketches; and finally returned to his studies in 1769. 480: 753: 512: 452:
The British Cyclopedia of Biography: Containing the Lives of Distinguished Men of All Ages and Countries, with Portraits, Residences, Autographs, and Monuments
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in 1741 and returned many years later to prosecute his studies. His father made him a meagre allowance, and he was heavily encumbered with debt.
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and the island of Lefkas in northwestern Greece. His father left him an annuity of £1000, the bulk of the property going to his sister
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The map seems to have been based on a large manuscript map of the same area drawn in 1757 by Girolamo Delanges and held in the
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Rare map of the Gulf of Ambracia, Preveza, and Lefkas, drawn and published by Edward Wortley Montagu, in 1760 c.
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in 1748. In 1751, he was involved in a disreputable gaming quarrel in Paris; arrested for cheating a Jew at
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Finding aid to Edward Wortley Montagu papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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of Paris, and he was ordered to pay a fine of 300 livres. He continued to sit in parliament, and wrote
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The book of Curiosities : Containing Ten Thousand Wonders and Curiosities of Nature and Art
212:, he was also an excellent orator. His family thought him mad, and his mother left him a single 92:, but without dates. The first ended in his discovery, after a year's absence, selling fish in 84:, from which he ran away more than once. On the first occasion, in July 1726, he was traced to 23: 665: 606: 738: 733: 669: 620: 47: 8: 379: 169:. He was cleared after the first court hearing before the decision was overturned by the 545: 165:
and then robbing him when he refused to pay; and was imprisoned for eleven days in the
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in her will, but her annuity devolved on him at her death. He died at
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies
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described him as living in the Turkish manner at Venice. Fluent in
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On the return of his parents to England in 1718, he was placed at
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Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution
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Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Antient Republics ...
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He served in the British army from 1743 to 1748, first as a
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Edward Wortley Montagu 1713–1776: The Man in the Iron Wig
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Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Bossiney
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(1713-76)" 313: 286: 140: 28: 17: 543:Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 532: 726: 550: 449:Partington, Charles Frederick (1838). 428: 401: 188:He set out for extended travel in the 107:, and afterwards with a keeper to the 33:Montagu in Turkish dress, portrait by 526: 342:"Ancestors of Edward Wortley MONTAGU" 149:He was Member of Parliament (MP) for 69:in March 1716-17 was inoculated for 77:to undergo this medical procedure. 46:He was the son of the diplomat and 13: 314:Beckford, William (13 June 2013). 14: 800: 779:English male non-fiction writers 495: 486:Dictionary of National Biography 468: 442: 301:The History of Parliament Trust 438:. Leary and Getz. p. 110. 422: 395: 372: 367:The British and the Grand Tour 359: 334: 307: 297:The House of Commons 1715–1754 280: 255: 230: 159:War of the Austrian Succession 1: 223: 155:conference of Aix-la-Chapelle 111:. He made a serious study of 53:and the writer and traveller 774:Fellows of the Royal Society 389:In Charta. 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Matthew William Peters

George Romney
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Edward Wortley Montagu
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Duchess of Kingston
Blackwall
Oporto
West Indies
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War of the Austrian Succession
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