Montagu, a Post-Captain; and James Montagu, a Commander, in the Royal Navy. His eldest daughter is the lady of Rear-Admiral Sir John Gore, K.C.B., of whom a Memoir appears at p. 609 et seq., to which considerable additions will be made in the Supplement to the Addenda. Note.– See N.B. at p. 883.
Residence.– Stowell Lodge, Pewsey, Wilts.
RIGHT HONORABLE
GEORGE VISCOUNT KEITH,
Baron Keith of Stonehaven Marischal, co. Kincardine; Baron Keith of Banheath, co. Dumbarton, and Baron Keith in Ireland; Admiral of the Red; Secretary, Chamberlain, and Keeper of the Signet to the Great Steward of Scotland; a Counsellor of State for Scotland and the Duchy of Cornwall; Treasurer and Comptroller of the Household to H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence; Knight Grand Cross of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath; Knight of the Ottoman Order of the Crescent, and of the Royal Sardinian Military Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus; Fellow of the Royal Society, and a Vice-President of the Royal Western Infirmary.
The ancestor of this nobleman was a German of the name of Elvington, who settled in Scotland during the reign of Robert I., and married Margaret, daughter of Sir Christopher
tillery on the Bengal Establishment, an officer of acknowledged merit, was mortally wounded under the walls of Seringapatam, in 1799. The following outline of his services will no doubt be acceptable to the friends of his family:– Very shortly after his admission into the Artillery, he was appointed to the field, in the command of the detachment of that corps employed in the reduction of the forts in the Dooaub, in 1774–5, and subsequently in Rohilkund; and was severely wounded on two different occasions, once by the bursting of a shell, and again in the storming of fort Seekraunee, by an arrow, in the left eye. Although the nature of this wound was such as to render it advisable for him to proceed to Europe for his recovery, yet his zeal for the service induced him to solicit permission to accompany the Bengal artillery, to serve in the reduction of Pondicherry, in 1778. He subsequently served at the conquest of Cuddalore, and was present in the different battles between the British troops and Hyder Ally; and his conduct was honored with the approbation of his General. The encomiums passed upon him by Lord Cornwallis, in the course of the war with Tippoo Sultaun, were not less honorable than frequent. His last campaign was in 1798–9, under Major-General Harris; and at the period of his death, he had the immediate command of the batteries erected before Seringapatam. The share to be attributed to him in the reduction of that place, it would be presumptuous in us to state; – the general and united voice of the army proclaimed it.
