Viscount Hinchingbrooke
(1839-1916)
27 January 1861

Volume 2, page 170, sitting number 1969.

Born on 13 July 1839, Edward George Henry Montagu was the eldest son of John William Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich, and his wife Lady Mary née Paget, daughter of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey. He was styled Viscount Hinchingbrooke until the death of his father in 1884, when he became the 8th Earl of Sandwich.

He was elected Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Huntingdon in 1876, a seat he held until 1884, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and exchanged his seat in the House of Commons for one in the House of Lords.

Lord Sandwich was colonel of the Huntingdonshire Militia, and served as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire between 1891 and 1916. 

Lord Sandwich never married. He died, aged 76, on 26 June 1916 and was succeeded in the earldom by his nephew, George Charles Montagu.