27-644: 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
54-694: A forest . In 1889, under the Local Government Act 1888 Huntingdonshire became an administrative county , with the newly-formed Huntingdonshire County Council taking over administrative functions from the Quarter Sessions . The area in the north of the county forming part of the municipal borough of Peterborough became instead part of the Soke of Peterborough , an administrative county in Northamptonshire . In 1965, under
81-719: A gold and beribboned hunting horn on a green field, was registered by the Flag Institute in June 2009. Huntingdonshire District Council's headquarters are located in Pathfinder House in Huntingdon. The council consists of 52 councillors. Until 2018, district council elections were held in three out of every four years, with a third of the 52 council seats coming up each time. Elections since have been held for all seats every four years. The Conservative party had
108-435: A majority on the council from 1976 until 2022, after which a joint administration took control of the council. Huntingdonshire is the birthplace of bandy , now an IOC accepted sport. According to documents from 1813, Bury Fen Bandy Club was undefeated for 100 years. A club member, Charles Tebbutt , wrote the first official rules in 1882 and helped to spread the sport to other countries. Huntingdonshire County Cricket Club
135-507: A particular rank, including extinct, dormant, and abeyant peerages, see: Each peer is listed only by their highest English title. Peers known by a higher title in one of the other peerages are shown in blue, and peers with more than one title of the same rank in the Peerage of England are shown in orange. Subsidiary title Subsidiary title Huntingdonshire Huntingdonshire ( / ˈ h ʌ n t ɪ ŋ d ən ʃ ər , - ʃ ɪər / ; abbreviated Hunts )
162-646: A recommendation of the Local Government Commission for England , Huntingdonshire was merged with the Soke of Peterborough to form Huntingdon and Peterborough . The Lieutenancy county was also merged. At the same time, St Neots was expanded westwards over the river into Eaton Ford and Eaton Socon in Bedfordshire . In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972 , Huntingdon and Peterborough merged with Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely to form
189-468: Is a local government district in Cambridgeshire , England, which was historically a county in its own right. It borders Peterborough to the north, Fenland to the north-east, East Cambridgeshire to the east, South Cambridgeshire to the south-east, Central Bedfordshire and Bedford to the south-west, and North Northamptonshire to the west. The district had a population of 180,800 at
216-616: Is served by BBC East and ITV Anglia broadcasting from the Sandy Heath TV transmitter. Radio stations for the area are BBC Radio Cambridgeshire , Heart East , Greatest Hits Radio East , Star Radio and HCR FM , a community based station that broadcast from its studios in Huntingdon . The Hunts Post is the local weekly newspaper. The whole district is divided into civil parishes . The parish councils for Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Ramsey, St Ives and St Neots take
243-542: Is taken to be one of the 20 minor counties of English and Welsh cricket , but it has never played in the Minor Counties Championship . It has its own Cricket Board and played in the English domestic one-day competition from 1999 to 2003.The county played seven List A matches during this period, with the final List A match it played coming against Cheshire . In terms of television, Huntingdonshire
270-401: Is the present holder's elder son, Luke Timothy Charles Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke (b. 1969), who is married to an American entrepreneur, Julie Jean Montagu, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke . The heir apparent's heir apparent is their elder son together, The Hon. William James Hayman Montagu (b. 2004). Peerage of England The Peerage of England comprises all peerages created in
297-495: 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 (from whom the Dukes of Manchester descend), and Edward Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Boughton (from whom the Dukes of Montagu descended). He was succeeded by his son, the second Earl. He briefly represented Dover in
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#1732780074418324-611: The 2021 census , and has an area of 354.3 square miles (918 km ). After St Neots (33,410), the largest towns are Huntingdon (25,428), St Ives (16,815), and Yaxley (9,174 in 2011). The district council is based in Huntingdon . Huntingdonshire's boundaries were established in the Anglo-Saxon era. It was divided into four hundreds . The county did not have an independent sheriff, instead being combined with neighbouring Cambridgeshire. Huntingdonshire became an administrative county when they were established in 1889. In 1965 it
351-633: The House of Commons and served as Ambassador to Portugal and as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire . The second Earl's great-grandson was The 4th Earl of Sandwich , who was a prominent statesman and served as First Lord of the Admiralty and as Secretary of State for the Northern Department . Lord Sandwich is also remembered for sponsoring the voyages of discovery made by Captain James Cook , R.N. , who named
378-462: The House of Lords . He disclaimed his peerages in 1964 but never returned to the House of Commons. As of 2017, the titles are held by his eldest son, John Montagu, the 11th Earl of Sandwich, who succeeded him in 1995. Lord Sandwich is one of the ninety elected hereditary peers that remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999 , and sits as a cross-bencher . Today
405-512: The House of Lords Act 1999 all Peers of England could sit in the House of Lords . The ranks of the English peerage are, in descending order, duke , marquess , earl , viscount , and baron . While most newer English peerages descend only in the male line, many of the older ones (particularly older baronies) can descend through females. Such peerages follow the old English inheritance law of moieties so all daughters (or granddaughters through
432-683: The Kingdom of England before the Act of Union in 1707. From that year, the Peerages of England and Scotland were closed to new creations, and new peers were created in a single Peerage of Great Britain . There are five peerages in the United Kingdom in total. English Peeresses obtained their first seats in the House of Lords under the Peerage Act 1963 from which date until the passage of
459-659: The Sandwich Islands in his honour, and as the namesake of the sandwich . He was succeeded by his son, the fifth Earl. He sat as Member of Parliament for Brackley and Huntingdonshire and served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and as Master of the Buckhounds . His son, the sixth Earl, also represented Huntingdonshire in Parliament. He was succeeded by his son, the seventh Earl. He held office in
486-807: The commission for reconsideration in 1995. The commission recommended the creation of a Peterborough unitary authority, but proposed that Huntingdonshire remain part of the shire county of Cambridgeshire, noting that "there was no exceptional county allegiance to Huntingdonshire, as had been perceived in Rutland and Herefordshire." David McKie writing in The Guardian in October 1994 noted that "Writers-in demanded an independent Huntingdon; but MORI's more broadly based poll showed that most Huntingdonians – that is, most of [Prime Minister] John Major 's electors – were content to stay part of Cambridgeshire." After
513-752: The district council. Original historical documents relating to Huntingdonshire are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Huntingdon . The Local Government Boundary Commission for England (1992) considered in the 1990s the case for making a Huntingdonshire unitary authority as part of a general structural review of English local government that led to unitary authorities in two other English counties that had been abolished: Rutland and Herefordshire . The Draft Recommendations envisaged three possible scenarios for structural change in Cambridgeshire:
540-489: The failure to revive the unitary authority, a Huntingdonshire Society was set up to promote awareness of Huntingdonshire as a historic county and campaign for its reinstatement as an administrative and ceremonial entity. In 2002 it established an annual "Huntingdonshire Day" on 25 April, the birthday of Oliver Cromwell . After a campaign by the Huntingdonshire Society, the county flag of Huntingdonshire ,
567-531: The family seat is at Mapperton in Dorset . From the 17th century until the 1960s, the family also owned Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdonshire , now a school, from which the title Viscount Hinchingbrooke was derived. Some historical papers of the family and its Hinchingbrooke estate are held by Cambridgeshire Archives and Local Studies at the County Record Office in Huntingdon . The heir apparent
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#1732780074418594-523: The first two Conservative administrations of the Earl of Derby as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms and Master of the Buckhounds and was also Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire. His eldest son, the eighth Earl, represented Huntingdon in the House of Commons as a Conservative and served as Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire. He was succeeded by his nephew, the ninth Earl. He
621-595: The new non-metropolitan county of Cambridgeshire . A Huntingdon district was created based closely on the former administrative county borders, with the exclusion of the Old Fletton urban district, which became part of the Peterborough district, as did the part of Norman Cross Rural District in Peterborough New Town. The district was renamed Huntingdonshire on 1 October 1984 by a resolution of
648-553: The preferred option and the third option had a unitary Huntingdonshire, whilst the second option would have seen Huntingdonshire combine with Peterborough and Fenland to form a "Peterborough and Huntingdonshire" unitary authority. The Final Recommendations of the Commission for Cambridgeshire recommended no change in the status quo in Cambridgeshire. The districts of Peterborough and Huntingdonshire were referred back to
675-446: The same root) stand as co-heirs, so some such titles are in such a state of abeyance between these. Baronets , while holders of hereditary titles, as such are not peers and not entitled to stand for election in the House of Lords. Knights , dames and holders of other non-hereditary orders, decorations, and medals are also not peers. The following tables only show peerages, still in existence. For lists of every peerage created at
702-564: Was merged with the Soke of Peterborough to form Huntingdon and Peterborough , which was in turn merged with Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely in 1974 to form Cambridgeshire, of which Huntingdonshire is now a district. The area corresponding to modern Huntingdonshire was first delimited in Anglo-Saxon times. Its boundaries have remained largely unchanged since the 10th century, although it lost its administrative function in 1974. On his accession in 1154 Henry II declared all Huntingdonshire
729-451: Was the son of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Victor Alexander Montagu , second son of the seventh Earl. Lord Sandwich was Member of Parliament for Huntingdon and Lord Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire. His son, the tenth Earl, represented South Dorset in Parliament as a Conservative from 1941 to 1962, when he succeeded his father in the earldom and had to resign his seat in the House of Commons and enter
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