George Victor Drogo Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester, etc. (Kimbolton, Ireland, 17 June 1853 – Tandragee Castle, County Armagh, 18 August 1892), styled Lord Kimbolton from 1853 to 1855 and Viscount Mandeville from 1855 to 1890, was a British peer and Member of Parliament.
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Montagu was the son of William Drogo Montagu, 7th Duke of Manchester, and Countess Louise von Alten.
In 1877 Montagu was elected to the House of Commons for Huntingdonshire, a seat he held until 1880. Apart from his political career he also achieved the rank of Captain in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. In 1890 succeeded his father in the dukedom and took his seat in the House of Lords.
On May 22, 1876, Manchester married Doña María Consuelo Yznaga del Valle, the daughter of a wealthy Cuban plantation owner and a renowned beauty. It was widely accepted that he had married her for her money and she for his titles. One of Consuelo del Valle's closest friends, Edith Wharton, was said to have incorporated certain aspects of her friend's marriage in her unfinished novel, The Buccaneers. Their union produced a son and twin daughters:
Manchester died in August 1892, aged only 39, and was succeeded in his titles by his son William.
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Edward Fellowes Sir Henry Carstairs Pelly |
Member of Parliament for Huntingdonshire 1877–1880 With: Edward Fellowes |
Succeeded by William Fellowes Lord Douglas Gordon |
| Peerage of Great Britain | ||
| Preceded by William Drogo Montagu |
Duke of Manchester 1890–1892 |
Succeeded by William Angus Drogo Montagu |