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12-499: The Car Illustrated. A Journal of Travel by Land, Sea, and Air was a British weekly automobile magazine, first published on 28 May 1902. It was edited by Hon. John Scott Montagu MP, the son of Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu , and an early motoring enthusiast. On his father's death in November 1905, he succeeded to the title as John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu In 1899, Scott became

24-489: A member of Parliament representing an English constituency is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . John Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe FRS (20 April 1801 – 22 October 1855), was a British Tory politician. He served briefly as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies between December 1834 and January 1835. A member of

36-544: The New Forest commoners . He was official Verderer of the New Forest from 1890 to 1892, and Honorary Colonel of the 4th Hampshire Rifle Volunteers from 1885. In 1885, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Montagu of Beaulieu , in the County of Southampton. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu married Hon. Cecily Susan Stuart-Wortley, daughter of John Stuart-Wortley, 2nd Baron Wharncliffe , in 1865. In 1899, Lady Montagu gave £1 to

48-908: The West Riding of Yorkshire from 1841 to 1845. He served under the Duke of Wellington as Secretary to the Board of Control in 1830 and under Sir Robert Peel as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies from 1834 to 1835. In 1845 succeeded his father in the barony and took his seat in the House of Lords . Lord Wharncliffe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 4 June 1829. Lord Wharncliffe married Lady Georgiana Elizabeth Ryder, daughter of Dudley Ryder, 1st Earl of Harrowby , in 1825. They had five children: Lord Wharncliffe died on 22 October 1855, aged 54, at Wortley Hall , Wortley, and

60-646: The peerage of the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Scottish Conservative and Unionist or Unionist Party (Scotland) Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Conservative Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom born in the 1830s is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about

72-535: The Stuart family headed by the Marquess of Bute , Wharncliffe was the son of James Stuart-Wortley, 1st Baron Wharncliffe , and his wife Lady Caroline Elizabeth Mary Crichton , daughter of John Crichton, 1st Earl Erne . He was the elder brother of Charles Stuart-Wortley and James Stuart-Wortley . Wharncliffe sat as Member of Parliament for Bossiney from 1823 to 1830, for Perth Burghs from 1830 to 1831 and for

84-675: The Women's Suffrage Auxiliary Fund of the Englishwoman's Review. They had two sons and one daughter, the Honourable Rachel Cecily Montagu-Scott, wife of Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster . He died in 1905 at Beaulieu Palace House in Beaulieu, Hampshire , one day prior to his 73rd birthday. The cause of death was heart failure blamed on his lifelong poor health. This biography of a baron in

96-624: The article's talk page . Henry Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu Henry John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 1st Baron Montagu of Beaulieu JP , DL (5 November 1832 – 4 November 1905), styled Lord Henry Scott until 1885, was a British Conservative Party politician and aristocrat. Montagu was born at Dalkeith Palace in Midlothian, the second son of Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5th Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Charlotte Anne Thynne , daughter of Thomas Thynne, 2nd Marquess of Bath . He suffered from severe asthma . He

108-614: The first person to drive a car into the yard of the House of Commons , a 12 hp Daimler that he had recently bought, and in September 1899, his Daimler finished third in the touring car class in the Paris–Ostend race, the first prize ever won by a British driver in a British-built car. This transport magazine or journal-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about magazines . Further suggestions might be found on

120-584: The next 14 years. In March 1853, he and his friend, Lord Schomberg Kerr and their tutor arrived at Sydney . Young British aristocrats were rare visitors to New South Wales , and Sydney matrons with unmarried daughters ensured they did not lack invitations to dinners, balls and other social events. Lord Henry made many sketches and paintings in the colony, some of which are now held by the Mitchell Library and John Oxley Library in Australia. He

132-615: Was educated at Eton but was forced to leave after a few years, as it was recommended by physicians he spend the cold British winters in a warmer climate. Accordingly, at 15, he and his tutor, the Rev Henry Stobart, travelled overseas each winter. These trips became longer and took them further afield. Madeira , Egypt , the West Indies , Turkey , Greece , South Africa , and the Pacific Islands were visited over

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144-583: Was especially interested in Egypt and before he was 40 had been up and down the Nile seven times. When he got married in 1865, his father gifted him Beaulieu Palace House . Montagu sat as Conservative Member of Parliament for Selkirkshire from 1861 to 1868 and for South Hampshire from 1868 to 1884. He was a strong advocate of commoners' rights and helped pass the New Forest Act, 1877 on behalf of

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