Baron Montagu of Beaulieu, in the County of Hampshire,
is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1885
for the Conservative politician Lord Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, who
had earlier represented Selkirkshire and South Hampshire in the House of
Commons. He was the second son of
Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke
of Buccleuch). His son, the second Baron, sat as a Conservative Member
of Parliament for New Forest. The 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu was one
of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords
after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, and sat on the
Conservative benches. As descendants of the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, the
Barons Montagu of Beaulieu are also in remainder to this peerage and its
subsidiary titles.
The seat of the Barons Montagu of Beaulieu is Beaulieu Palace House in
Beaulieu, Hampshire. The house, built around the gatehouse of the
monastery of Beaulieu Abbey (the extensive ruins of which are a major
feature of the estate), was purchased in 1538 by Thomas Wriothesley, 1st
Earl of Southampton, when the abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII. The
house came into the Montagu family through the marriage of Ralph Montagu,
3rd Baron Montagu, and Lady Elizabeth Wriothesley, daughter of Thomas
Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton.
The first title to be created in the name of Beaulieu was for Edward
Hussey. He was the husband of Lady Isabella Montagu, widow of William
Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester, and daughter of John Montagu, 2nd Duke
of Montagu, and adopted the surname of Hussey-Montagu in 1749. He was
created Baron Beaulieu in 1762 and Earl of Beaulieu in 1784. Both titles
were in the Peerage of Great Britain, and became extinct on his death in
1802.
The representation of the Montagu family (along with that of the
Douglases, Dukes of Queensberry) later passed to the Scott family,
headed by the Duke of Buccleuch, through the marriage of Henry Scott,
3rd Duke of Buccleuch, to Lady Elizabeth Montagu, daughter of George
Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (of the 1766 creation). The Scotts then
adopted the surname of Montagu Douglas Scott. As mentioned above, Lord
Henry Montagu Douglas Scott, second son of the fifth Duke of Buccleuch,
was created Baron Montagu of Beaulieu in 1885 and thereafter changed his
surname to Douglas-Scott-Montagu.
Barons Montagu of Beaulieu (1885)
Henry John
Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1832–1905)
John Walter Edward
Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (1866–1929)
Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of
Beaulieu (1926–2015)
Ralph Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 4th Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (born 1961)
The heir presumptive is the present holder's half-brother, the Hon.
Jonathan Deane Douglas-Scott-Montagu (born 1975). |
