Edwin Montagu
Edwin Samuel Montagu PC (6 February 1879 – 15 November 1924) was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. Montagu was a "radical" Liberal[1] and the third practising Jew (after Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Rufus Isaacs) to serve in the British cabinet.
Not to be confused with Edwin Montague.
Edwin Montagu
Background and education[edit]
Montagu was the second son and sixth child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling, by his wife Ellen, daughter of Louis Cohen. He was educated at Doreck College,[2] Clifton College,[3] the City of London School, University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge.[4] At Cambridge, he was the first student president of the Cambridge University Liberal Club from 1902 to 1903.[5] In 1902, he was also president of the Cambridge Union.