Samuel Pepys was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament,but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade. Though he had no maritime experience,Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage,diligence,and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.
Edward Montagu,2nd Earl of Manchester,KG,KB,FRS was an important commander of Parliamentary forces in the First English Civil War,and for a time Oliver Cromwell's superior.
Earl of Sandwich is a noble title in the Peerage of England,held since its creation by the House of Montagu. It is nominally associated with Sandwich,Kent. It was created in 1660 for the prominent naval commander Admiral Sir Edward Montagu. He was made Baron Montagu of St Neots,of St Neots in the County of Huntingdon,and Viscount Hinchingbrooke,at the same time,also in the Peerage of England. The viscountcy is used as the courtesy title by the heir apparent to the earldom. A member of the prominent Montagu family,Lord Sandwich was the son of Sir Sidney Montagu,youngest brother of Henry Montagu,1st Earl of Manchester,and Edward Montagu,1st Baron Montagu of Boughton.
Henry Montagu,1st Earl of Manchester was an English judge,politician and peer. He is mainly remembered today as the judge who sentenced Sir Walter Raleigh to death.
Edward Montagu,1st Earl of Sandwich,27 July 1625 to 28 May 1672,was an English military officer,politician and diplomat from Barnwell,Northamptonshire. During the First English Civil War,he served with the Parliamentarian army,and was a Member of Parliament at various times between 1645 and 1660. Under The Protectorate,he was also a member of the English Council of State and General at sea.
Ralph Montagu,1st Duke of Montagu was an English courtier,diplomat,politician and peer.
Sir Orlando Bridgeman,1st Baronet,was an English common law jurist,lawyer,and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1640 to 1642. He supported the Royalist cause in the Civil War.
Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton,Hanging Houghton and Hemington in Northamptonshire was an English lawyer and judge in the time of Henry VIII and Edward VI. He was Chief Justice of the King's Bench from 1539 to 1545 and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1545 to 1553.
Robert Montagu,3rd Earl of Manchester JP was an English courtier and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1660 to 1671 when he inherited the peerage as Earl of Manchester.
Sir Gilbert Pickering,1st Baronet,10 March 1611 to 17 October 1668,was a member of the landed gentry from Northamptonshire,and a religious Independent who supported Parliament in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. An MP for Northamptonshire for most of the period from 1640 to 1660,during the 1649 to 1660 Interregnum he also served as Lord Chamberlain,sat on the English Council of State,and was appointed to Cromwell's Upper House in 1658.
Edward Montagu,2nd Earl of Sandwich was an English aristocrat and politician.
Sir Daniel Harvey was an English merchant and diplomat who was the English Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1668 to 1672.
John Crew,1st Baron Crew of Stene was an English lawyer and politician,who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1660. He was a Puritan and sided with the Parliamentary cause during the Civil War. He was raised to a peerage as Baron Crew by Charles II after the Restoration.
Edward Montagu,1st Baron Montagu of Boughton,,also known as Sir Edward Montague of Boughton Castle,was an English politician.
Edward Montagu,2nd Baron Montagu of Boughton of Boughton House,Northamptonshire was an English peer and politician.
Sir Robert Bernard,1st Baronet (1601–1666) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.
Sir William Montagu was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons variously between 1640 and 1695.
Sir Edward Montagu was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1559.
Sir Charles Montagu of Cranbrook Hall in the parish of Barking,Essex,was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1614 to 1625.
Elizabeth Harington was an English aristocrat.
