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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 and the third practising Jew (after Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Rufus Isaacs) to serve in the British cabinet.
Edwin Samuel Montagu was a British politician who helped introduce the Government of India Act of 1919, a legislative measure that marked a decisive stage in India’s constitutional development. Montagu entered Parliament as a Liberal in 1906 and became secretary to Herbert Henry Asquith, prime.
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Oct 22, 2012 · Lord Edwin Samuel Montagu (1879-1924), Anglo-Jewish statesman, was British Minister of Munitions, 1916, and Secretary of State for India, 1917-22. This entry was posted in Historical , Pre-Balfour Declaration and tagged 1917 , anti-semitism , assimilationist , Balfour , Jew , Jewish Legion , Montagu , Palestine , Rothschild , Russian Jews ...
Few of the young men swept into Parliament by the Liberal landslide in 1906 endured as meteoric a rise and fall as Montagu. By the age of thirty-eight he was Secretary of State for India, introducing sweeping reforms to the government of the subcontinent.
Edwin Samuel Montagu PC was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. Montagu was a "radical" Liberal and the third practising Jew to serve in the British cabinet.
MONTAGU, EDWIN S. (1879–1924), secretary of state for India (1917–1922). John Morley 's Liberal protégé as undersecretary of state for India, Edwin S. Montagu served as secretary of state for India from 1917 to 1922, the only person of Jewish faith ever to hold that office.
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The Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms or more briefly known as the Mont–Ford Reforms, were introduced by the colonial government to introduce self-governing institutions gradually in British India. The reforms take their name from Edwin Montagu, the Secretary of State for India from 1917 to 1922, and Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India between ...
