Basil Montagu

(1770-1851)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Montagu, Basil, 1770-1851 NRA: Montagu Basil (1770-1851) Legal and Miscellaneous Writer DNB: Montagu, Basil (1770-1851), author and legal reformer LBT ID: BaMonta1851 VIAF ID: 17571171 LOC ID: n85828872	B/BAP: 1770-04-24 DIED: 1851-11-27
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
An illegitimate son of the fourth earl of Sandwich, he was educated at Charterhouse and Christ's College, Cambridge, and afterwards was a lawyer, editor, and friend of Samuel Romilly, William Godwin, and William Wordsworth.
CORRESPONDENCE OF Basil Montagu: Charles Lamb to Basil Montagu, 12 July 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) William Roscoe to Basil Montagu, [1819] in The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833)