David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

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David Bernard Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, CMG, CBE, (b. 18 August 1928) is a British politician, businessman and promoter of good relations with South America. He is the son of the famous World War II Field Marshal, Bernard Law Montgomery.

Montgomery was educated at Winchester College and gained an engineering degree at Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered business, working for Shell International and several other companies, building close links with Latin America. He has served as a patron and chairman of various Anglo-Latin American organisations, including the Anglo-Argentine Society, Canning House and the Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council.

Montgomery inherited the title of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein following his father's death and originally sat as a Conservative in the House of Lords until 1999, when he and most other hereditary peers were removed from the House under the House of Lords Act 1999. He was returned to the Lords as a crossbencher in an election of hereditary cross-bench peers in 2005, following the death of Baroness Strange.

He was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 1975 and a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 2000. He has also received decorations from Germany, Belgium, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia. He has co-authored The Lonely Leader: Monty 1944-45 about his father in 1994.

In 1953, Montgomery married Mary Connell, divorcing in 1967 after having a son and a daughter. He then married Tessa Browning, daughter of Daphne du Maurier and Lieutenant-General Sir Frederick Browning, a close colleague of Field Marshal Montgomery.

Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by: Bernard Law Montgomery	Viscount Montgomery of Alamein 1976–Present	Succeeded by: Current Incumbent