Walter Montagu (MP)
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Walter Montagu was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons
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The House of Commons of England was the lower house of the Parliament of England from its development in the 14th century to the union of England and Scotland in 1707, when it was replaced by the House of Commons of Great Britain...

  in 1614.

Montagu was the second son of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton. He was knighted on 11 May 1603. He became High Sheriff of Monmouthshire
High Sheriff of Monmouthshire
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 in 1608. In 1614, he was elected Member of Parliament
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 for Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Monmouthshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of Parliament of England from 1536 until 1707, of the Parliament of Great Britain from 1707 to 1801, and of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1885...

 in the Addled Parliament
Addled Parliament
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.

Montagu died in 1615 and was buried at Llanmartin.

Montagu married Ann Morgan daughter of Henry Morgan of Pencoyd.
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