Note 23 — HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE SECOND,

Sir Charles Montague was the son of Brigadier-General Edward Montague, Colonel of the Eleventh Foot, and Governor of Hull, nephew of George, second Earl of Halifax, and great nephew to the celebrated minister Halifax. He had an elder brother, Edward, killed at the battle of Fontenoy, being then Lieutenant-Colonel of the Thirty-first Foot. Sir Charles attained the rank of Colonel in the army on the 30th of November, 1755; Major-General on the 25th of June, 1759; and Lieutenant-General on the 19th of January, 1761. He died on the 1st of August, 1777.