Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu

Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu JP, DL (5 November 1832 – 4 November 1905), styled Lord Henry Scott until 1885, was a British Conservative Party politician.

The Right Honourable The Lord Montagu of Beaulieu JP DL
Scott as caricatured by Théobald Chartran in Vanity Fair, September 1881
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 29 December 1885 – 4 November 1905 Hereditary Peerage
Preceded by	Peerage created
Succeeded by	The 2nd Lord Montagu of Beaulieu
Member of Parliament for South Hampshire
In office 7 December 1868 – 23 June 1884
Preceded by	Henry Hamlyn-Fane
Succeeded by	Sir Frederick Fitzwygram Bt.
Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire
In office 1 August 1861 – 7 December 1868
Preceded by	Allan Eliott-Lockhart
Succeeded by	constituency abolished
Personal details
Born	Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu 5 November 1832
Died	4 November 1905 (aged 72)
Political party	Conservative
Spouse(s)	Cecily Susan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley
Children	3
Parents	Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch Lady Charlotte Thynne

Background and education

Scott was the second son of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Charlotte Anne Thynne, daughter of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath. He was educated at Eton.

He suffered from severe asthma and it was recommended by physicians he spend the cold British winters in a warmer climate. Accordingly, from the age of 15, he and his tutor, the Rev Henry Stobart, travelled overseas each winter. These trips became longer and took them further afield. Madeira, Egypt, the West Indies, Turkey, Greece, South Africa, and the Pacific Islands were visited over the next 14 years.

In March 1853, he and his friend, Lord Schomberg Kerr, and their tutor arrived at Sydney. Young British aristocrats were rare visitors to New South Wales and Sydney matrons with unmarried daughters ensured they did not lack invitations to dinners, balls and other social events. Lord Henry made many sketches and paintings in the colony, some of which are now held by the Mitchell Library and John Oxley Library in Australia.[1]

Political career

Scott sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire from 1861 to 1868[2] and for South Hampshire from 1868 to 1884.[3] He was official Verderer of the New Forest from 1890 to 1892, and Honorary Colonel of the 4th Hampshire Rifle Volunteers from 1885. In 1885 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, in the County of Southampton.

Family

Lord Montagu of Beaulieu married the Honourable Cecily Susan Montagu-Stuart-Wortley, daughter of John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe, in 1865. In 1899 Lady Montagu gave £1 to the Women's Suffrage Auxiliary Fund of the Englishwoman's Review.[4] They had two sons and one daughter, the Honourable Rachel Cecily Douglas-Scott-Montagu, wife of Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster.

References

1. Suzanna de Vries Evans (1983), Historic Sydney as seen by early artists, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, pp.140-1. ISBN 0207156204
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "S" (part 2)
3. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "H" (part 1)
4. Boucherett, Jessie (16 January 1899). "The Women's Suffrage Auxiliary Fund". The Englishwoman's Review. 30: 29–30 – via HathiTrust.

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External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu