Montagu, Charles, earl of Halifax
(1661–1715)
- Stuart Handley
Extract
Montagu, Charles, earl of Halifax (1661–1715), politician, was born on 16 April 1661 at Horton, Northamptonshire, and baptized at St Margaret's, Westminster, on 12 May, the sixth, but fourth surviving, son of George Montagu (bap. 1622, d. 1681), politician, a younger son of ...