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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 142 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SANDWICH, See also:EDWARD See also:MONTAGU, or MOUNTAGU, 1ST See also:EARL OF (1625–1672)  , See also:English See also:admiral, was a son of See also:Sir See also:Sidney See also:Montagu (d . 1644) of Hinchinbrook, who was a See also:brother of See also:Henry Montagu, 1st See also:earl of See also:Manchester, and of See also:Edward Montagu, 1st See also:Lord Montagu of See also:Boughton . He was See also:born on the 27th of See also:July 1625, and although his See also:father was a royalist, he himself joined the See also:parliamentary party at the outbreak of the See also:Civil 'See also:Var . In 1643 he raised a See also:regiment, with which he distinguished himself at the battles of See also:Marston See also:Moor and See also:Naseby and at the See also:siege of See also:Bristol . Though one of See also:Cromwell's intimate See also:friends, he took little See also:part in public affairs until 1653, when he was appointed a member of the See also:council of See also:state . His career as a See also:seaman began in 1656, when he was made a See also:general-at-See also:sea, his colleague being See also:Robert See also:Blake . Having taken some part in the operations against See also:Dunkirk in 1657, he was chosen a member of Cromwell's See also:House of Lords, and in 1659 he was sent by See also:Richard Cromwell with a See also:fleet to arrange a See also:peace between See also:Sweden and See also:Denmark . After the fall of Richard he resigned his command and joined with those who were frightened by the prospect of anarchy in bringing about the restoration of See also:Charles II . Again general-at-sea See also:early in 166o, Montagu carried the fleet over to the See also:side of the exiled See also:king, and was entrusted with the See also:duty of fetching Charles from See also:Holland . He was then made a See also:knight of the Garter, and in July 166o was created earl of See also:Sandwich . His subsequent See also:naval duties included the See also:conveyance of several royal exiles to See also:England and arranging for the cession of See also:Tangier and for the See also:payment of £300,000, the See also:dowry of See also:Catherine of See also:Braganza . During the See also:war with the Dutch in 1664–1665 Sandwich commanded a See also:squadron under the See also:duke of See also:York and distinguished himself in the See also:battle off See also:Lowestoft on the 3rd of See also:June 1665 .

When the duke retired later in the same See also:

year he became See also:commander-inchief, and he directed an unsuccessful attack on some Dutch See also:merchant See also:ships which were sheltering in the See also:Norwegian See also:port of See also:Bergen; however, on his homeward voyage he captured some valuable prizes, about which a See also:great See also:deal of trouble arose on his return . See also:Personal jealousies were intermingled with charges of irregularities in dealing with the captured See also:property, and the upshot was that Sandwich was dismissed from his command, but as a solatium was sent to See also:Madrid as See also:ambassador extraordinary . He arranged a treaty with See also:Spain, and in 1670 was appointed See also:president of the council of See also:trade and plantations . When the war with the Dutch was renewed in 1672 Sandwich again commanded a squadron under the duke of York, and during the fight in Southwold See also:Bay on the 28th of May 1672, his See also:ship, the " Royal See also:George," after having taken a conspicuous part in the See also:action, was set on See also:fire and was blown up . The earl's See also:body was found some days later and was buried in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey . Edward (d . 1688) the eldest of his six sons, succeeded to the titles; another son, See also:John Montagu (c . 1655–1728) was See also:dean of See also:Durham . Lord Sandwich claimed to have a certain knowledge of See also:science, and his See also:translation of a See also:Spanish See also:work on the See also:Art of Metals appeared in 1674 . Many of his letters and papers are in the See also:British Museum, the Bodleian Library at See also:Oxford, and in the See also:possession of the See also:present earl of Sandwich . He is mentioned very frequently in the See also:Diary of his kinsman, See also:Samuel See also:Pepys . See also J .

See also:

Charnock, Biographia Navalis, vol. i . (1794) ; John See also:Campbell, Lives of the British Admirals, vol. ii . (1779) ; and R . See also:Southey, Lives of the British Admirals, vol. v . (184o) .

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