Edwin Samuel Montagu

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Edwin Samuel Montagu Cartoon in Punch magazine 14 July 1920, on the occasion of Montagu labelling as "frightful" General Dyer for his role in the Amritsar massacre, as it was then known.
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Edwin Samuel Montagu
Cartoon in Punch magazine 14 July 1920, on the occasion of Montagu labelling as "frightful" General Dyer for his role in the Amritsar massacre, as it was then known.

Edwin Samuel Montagu (February 6, 1879 – November 15, 1924) was a British Liberal politician, the second son and seventh child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling.

First elected as an MP in 1906, Edwin Montagu was Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922.

He was the second Jew to enter the British Cabinet but was strongly opposed to Zionism, which he called "a mischievous political creed." He opposed the Balfour Declaration, which he considered "anti-semitic" and whose terms he managed to modify. He was opposed by his cousin Herbert Samuel, a moderate Zionist who became the first High Commissioner of Palestine.

Preceded by:
Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman		 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1915		 Succeeded by:
Winston Churchill
Preceded by:
Herbert Samuel		 Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1916		 Succeeded by:
Thomas McKinnon Wood
Preceded by:
David Lloyd George		 Minister of Munitions
1916		 Succeeded by:
Christopher Addison
Preceded by:
Austen Chamberlain		 Secretary of State for India
1917–1922		 Succeeded by:
The Viscount Peel
Preceded by:
Walter Raymond Greene		 Member for Chesterton
1906–1918		 Succeeded by:
Constituency abolished
Preceded by:
Constituency created		 Member for Cambridgeshire
1918–1922		 Succeeded by:
Harold William Stannus Gray
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