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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.
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Mar 27, 2024 · 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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(August 23, 1917) Anti-Semitism: Table of Contents | European Anti-Semitism in 2013 | Wilhelm Marr. Memorandum of Edwin Montagu on the Anti-Semitism of the Present (British) Government - Submitted to the British Cabinet, August 1917.
Feb 9, 2019 · Back in 1917, Jewish Cabinet minister Edwin Montagu furiously blocked declaring Palestine a Jewish homeland, but his marriage to a former PM’s fatal attraction shifted the scales. By Robert...
Edwin Montagu, 1879-1924. By Ian Packer. Type: Biography. 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.
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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 1916 and 1921. The reforms were outlined in the Montagu-Chelmsford Report, prepared in 1918, and formed the basis of the Government of India Act 1919. These are related to constitutional reforms.
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.
