u.1. Francis WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 1676

u.1.  Francis, geb. 1676.

Francis was die seun van Sidney Montague en Anne Newcomen.

(Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding.  London: 1874)

Eldest son and heir-apparent, member in three parliaments for Huntingdon, died before his father.

u.5. John WORTLEY MONTAGU

u.5.  John, Esq. oorl. 1726 x Agnes, dau of …. Living in 1726.

John was die seun van Sidney Montague en Anne Newcomen.

(Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding.  London: 1874)

On 20 July 1731, a couple of months before they moved, Lady Mary and her husband attended to a huge volume of business.  Among documents they sighned and sealed that day were leases of property to tenants including Wortley’s sister-in-law Agnes Wortley alias Montagu of Exeter, and a mortgage of property held in trust for Agnes's two daughters.  It looks as if Wortley was dealing with all his family responsibilities at once.  (Isobel Grundy, Henry Marshall Tory Professor Isobel Grundy:  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . P. 304.)

Kinders:

v.1.  John WORTLEY MONTAGU, a minor in 1726.

v.2.  Catherine WORTLEY MONTAGU, a minor in 1726.

v.3.  Ann WORTLEY MONTAGU, a minor in 1726.

u.6. Ann WORTLEY MONTAGU, ged. 01/08/1683

u.6.  Ann, ged. 01/08/1683, Tankersley, Yorkshire (West Riding), Engeland.  Nooit getroud.

Ann was die dogter van Sidney Montague en Anne Newcomen.

(Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding.  London: 1874)

u.7. Catherine WORTLEY MONTAGU, ged. 12/10/1684

u.7.  Catherine, ged. 12/10/1684, Tankersley, Yorkshire (West Riding), Engeland x John ORME of Polebrock, Esq.

Catherine was die dogter van Sidney Montague en Anne Newcomen.

(Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding.  London: 1874)

v.2. Mary WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 19/01/1718

v.2.  Mary WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 19/01/1718, Contantinople, oorl. 06/11/1794, Isleworth, Middlesex, begr. St. Leonard's Churchyard, Wortley x 24/08/1736 met John STUART, geb. 25/05/1713, Parliament Close, Edinburgh, oorl. 10/03/1792, 3^rd Earl of Bute, oorl. 10/03/1792, South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, Westminster, begr. Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, s.v. James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute en Lady Anne Campbell.

Mary WORTLEY MONTAGU was die dogter van  Edward Wortley Montagu en Lady Mary Pierrepoint.

(Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London: 1874)

John Stuart het by Eton College studeer van 1724 tot 1730. Hy het voortgegaan om siviele reg aan die Universiteite van Groningen (1730–1732) en Leiden (1732–1734) in Nederland te studeer en aan laasgenoemde 'n graad in siviele reg verwerf.

Hy was 'n nabye familielid van die Campbell Clan (sy moeder was 'n dogter van die 1ste hertog van Argyll), Bute succeeded to the Earldom of Bute (genoem na die eiland Bute) met die dood van sy vader in 1723. Hy is daarna grootgemaak deur sy ooms aan moederskant, die 2de hertog van Argyll en Archibald Campbell, 3de hertog van Argyll, 1ste en enigste graaf van Ilay. In Augustus 1735 het hy saam met Mary Wortley Montagu elope, wie se ouers Sir Edward en Lady Mary Wortley Montagu traag was om tot die huwelik toe te stem. In 1737 is hy as 'n Skotse verteenwoordigende eweknie verkies; ten spyte daarvan dat hy in Desember daardie jaar in Londen was, het hy nie aan beraadslagings in die House of Lords deelgeneem nie.  As gevolg van sy steun vir Argyll teen Walpole, is hy nie in 1741 herkies nie. Vir die volgende paar jaar het hy na sy landgoedere in Skotland gegaan om sy sake te bestuur en sy belangstelling in plantkunde te geniet. 

In 1745 het Bute verhuis na Westminster, Londen, waar sy gesin 'n huis by Twickenham vir vyf-en-veertig pond per jaar gehuur het. Hy het Frederick, Prins van Wallis, in 1747 by die Egham-wedrenne ontmoet en 'n goeie vriend geword. Na die Prins se dood in 1751, is Bute as tutor van Prins George, die nuwe Prins van Wallis aangestel. Bute het gereël dat die Prins en sy broer Prins Edward 'n kursus oor natuurfilosofie deur die rondreisende dosent Stephen Demainbray volg. Bute het verder bevriend geraak met prins Frederick se weduwee, Augusta van Saxe-Gotha, prinses van Wallis en daar was gerugte dat hulle 'n verhouding gehad het. Indeed, one of the Prince of Wales's associates, John Horne Tooke, published a scandalous pamphlet alluding to the liaison, but the rumours were almost certainly untrue, since Bute held sincere religious beliefs against adultery and by all indications, appeared happily married. 

Mary was the only daughter and made heress by her father’s will.  Die landgoedere wat aan die gravin van Bute nagelaat is, het die oorspronklike Wortley Estates, Tintagel Estates en Simonstone in Wensley Dale en £500,000 ingesluit. (https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17153/Worthley%2C%20Nicole.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)

Vanweë die invloed wat hy oor sy leerling gehad het, het Bute verwag om vinnig tot politieke mag te styg ná George se troonbestyging in 1760, maar sy planne het nie dadelik uitgewerk nie. Dit sou eers nodig wees om beide die sittende eerste minister (die hertog van Newcastle) en waarskynlik die selfs kragtiger minister van buitelandse sake vir die suidelike departement (William Pitt die Ouderling) te verwyder. Die regering van die dag, gedryf deur onlangse suksesse in die Sewejarige Oorlog, was egter gewild en het goed gevaar by die algemene verkiesing wat, soos destyds gebruiklik was, met die toetreding van die nuwe monarg plaasgevind het.

Met die ondersteun van die koning het Bute homself tot mag verhef deur eers 'n bondgenoodskap met Newcastle teen Pitt te vorm, oor laasgenoemde se begeerte om oorlog teen Spanje te verklaar. Nadat hy deur Bute en Newcastle gedwarsboom is, het Pitt sy pos as minister van buitelandse sake vir die suidelike departement bedank. Vervolgens het Bute Newcastle se bedanking as premier afgedwing toe hy homself in 'n klein minderheid binne die regering bevind het. Bute, wat in 1760 as 'n Skotse verteenwoordigende eweknie herkies is, is aangestel as die de facto eerste minister na die bedankings van Pitt en Newcastle en het sodoende 'n lang tydperk van Whig-oorheersing beëindig.

1761.  Bute was appointed Ranger of Richmond Park by King George III, a post he held until his death; Bute Avenue in Petersham near the park is named after him. 

1761. (Mary) Created Baroness Mount Stuart, of Wortley in the county of York, with a remainder to her male heirs by her husband.

Coat of arms of Baroness Mount Stuart

1762. John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute became the prime minister of Great Britain.

John Stuart was 'n Britse edelman wat van 1762 tot 1763 onder George III as Eerste Minister van Groot-Brittanje gedien het. Hy was die eerste premier van Skotland na die Acts of Union van 1707 en die eerste Tory wat die pos beklee het. Bute's premiership was notable for the negotiation of the Treaty of Paris (1763) which concluded the Seven Years' War. In so doing, Bute had to soften his previous stance in relation to concessions given to France in that he agreed that the important fisheries in Newfoundland be returned to France without Britain's possession of Guadeloupe in return.  After peace was concluded, Bute and the King decided that Britain's military expenditure should not exceed its prewar levels, but they thought a large presence was necessary in America to deal with the French and Spanish threat. They therefore charged the colonists for the increased military levels, thus catalysing the resistance to taxes which led to the American Revolution. Bute also introduced a cider tax of four shillings per hogshead in 1763 to help finance the Seven Years' War.

Bute (1770)

Die joernalis John Wilkes het 'n koerant, The North Briton, gepubliseer waarin beide Bute en die Dowager-prinses van Wallis wreed bespot is. Bute het kort daarna as eerste minister bedank, hoewel hy as 'n Skotse verteenwoordigende eweknie in die House of Lords gebly het tot 1780. Hy het vriendelik gebly met die Dowager-prinses van Wallis, maar haar pogings om hom met George III te versoen, was tevergeefs.

3rd Earl of Bute by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Bute het Luton Hoo, of Luton Park, van Francis Herne (LP) in 1763 gekoop vir die bedrag van £94,700.  Recognising that the existing buildings were unsuitable, Bute commissioned the neoclassical architect Robert Adam to oversee the redesign of the estate house. Initial designs were unsatisfactory and, coupled with the sale of Bute House, Adams submitted new designs for a larger complex, which Bute further adjusted to include five book rooms and seven water closets. The building also housed an extensive art collection, particularly paintings of the Dutch and Flemish schools. A fire in March 1771 "did considerable damage" according to contemporary reports. The project was completed by 1773 but not according to the full plan, the second phase of which was abandoned. Dr. Samuel Johnson visiting the house in 1781 is quoted as saying, "This is one of the places I do not regret coming to see...in the house magnificence is not sacrificed to convenience, nor convenience to magnificence"

Luton Hoo mansion in 2009

1774. Mary Delany het aan haar vriend Bernard Granville, Jacobite Duke of Albemarle, geskryf en gesê: "You know so much of Lady Bute that I need say nothing of her agreeableness, her good sense, and good principles, which with great civility must be always pleasing.

Karl Wolfgang Schweizer het vir die Oxford Dictionary of National Biography geskryf: Lady Bute seems to have been a woman of prudence, loyalty, and tact, greatly devoted to her husband and family.

Lady Bute in 1780

Bute is ook verkies as die eerste president van die Society of Antiquaries of Scotland toe dit in 1780 gestig is.

Vir die res van sy lewe het Bute by sy landgoed in Hampshire gebly, waar hy vir hom 'n herehuis genaamd High Cliff naby Christchurch gebou het. Van daar af het hy sy belangstelling in plantkunde voortgesit en 'n groot literêre en artistieke beskermheer geword. Onder sy begunstigdes was Samuel Johnson, Tobias Smollett, Robert Adam, William Robertson en John Hill. Hy het ook heelwat aan die Skotse universiteite gegee. Hy het Alberto Fortis se reise na Dalmatië gefinansier. Sy botaniese werk het gelei tot die publikasie van Botanical Tables Containing the Families of British Plants in 1785. Selfs ná sy aftrede is Bute in die jare voor die Amerikaanse Revolusionêre Oorlog deur baie Amerikaners daarvan beskuldig dat hy 'n onnodige slegte invloed op die Britse regering gehad het.

Kinders:

(Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London: 1874)

w.1. Mary STUART, geb. c. 1741, oorl. 05/04/1824 x 07/09/1761 met James Lowther, Earl of Lonsdale

w.2. John STUART, geb. 30/06/1744, oorl. 16/11/1814 x Charlotte Jane Windsor (daughter of the Earl of Pemboke) the largest landowner in Cardiff. Lord Mount Stuart, politician who succeeded as 4th Earl of Bute.  Later 1st Marquess of Bute.

w.3.  Lady Ann STUART, geb. c. 1745 x 02/07/1764 met Hugh Percy, Lord Warkworth, later the 2nd Duke of Northumberland.

w.4. Sir James Archibald STUART WORTLEY MACKENZIE, geb. 19/09/1747, oorl. 01/03/1818 x 08/06/1767 met Margaret CUNNINGHAME (Cunynghame), geb. 13/12/1745, oorl. 13/01/1808, begr. Wortley., d.v. Sir David Cunninghame, Bart, of Levingstone, by the Lady Mary Montgomerie, d.v. Alexander, Eartl of Englintown,, which latter name he assumed in January 1795 on becoming heir to the estates of hies mother an subsequently inheriting the landed property in Scotland of his uncle, the Right Hon. James Stuart Mackenzie, assumed, in 1803, the name and arms of Mackenzie, of Roschaugh. Politician and author.

w.5. Jane STUART, geb. c. 1748, oorl. 28/02/1828 x 01/02/1768 met George Macartney, Earl Macartney

w.6. Frederick STUART, geb. 09/1751, oorl. 17/05/1802.  Politician.

w.7. Sir Charles STUART, geb. 01/1753, oorl. 25/05/1801. K.B. and general in the army Baron Stuart de Rutyhesay, extinct. Soldier and politician

w.8. William STUART, geb. 03/1755, oorl. 06/03/1822, Anglican prelate. Archbishop of Armagh

v.1. Edward WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 1713

 v.1.  Edward WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 1713

Edward WORTLEY MONTAGU was die seun van  Edward Wortley Montagu en Lady Mary Pierrepoint.

(Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding.  London: 1874)

Member in three parliaments for Bosiney;  disinherited.

Edward Wortley Montagu is nooit gedoop nie, wat toegeskryf kan word aan sy grootwordjare in die Turkse Ryk. I can find no record of young Wortley's baptism and superstition might persuade one that, with the Turkish infection, he had imbibed Turkish morals, for a more thorough scapegrace can scarcely be imagined than was quickly developed in this unnatural child.  Toe die gesin na Engeland teruggekeer het, is hy na die Westminster-skool gestuur om behoorlike Engelse onderwys te ontvang.  Where he at once exhibited the possession of remarkable abilities.  Maar vir onbekende redes het hy van die skool af weggehardloop om 'n visverkoper in Blackwell te word , by crying "fish " through the streets, and carrying a basket of them on his head. After a long and vain police search had been made for the truant, his voice betrayed him to an acquaintance of the family who happened to be on the spot when he was shouting for custom, and he was taken home and sent back to school.. Hy het weer weggehardloop.  Hy het op 'n boot wat na Porto (die tweede grootste stad in Portugal) gevaar het geklim ; and there he deserted, and went up the country, finding work in the vineyards for two or three years.  

Mary Wortley Montagu en haar seun Edward, by Jean-Baptiste van Mour

The same friend who discovered him at Blackwall again traced him, through the English Consul, and Mr. Wortley permitted Mr. Forster, who was the rescuer, to take the place of a travelling tutor, and so give vent to the vagabond spirit of his son. This plan lasted for awhile, with apparent success. The youth applied his mind to study, with excellent results ; and from a post which he held in the service of the Government, he was elected member for Huntingdonshire in 1747. Maar daar was geen standvastigheid van lewe of doel in die man nie. Hy het by skuld betrokke geraak en om dit vry te spring, het hy na Parys gevlug, waar hy 'n baie ernstige gevangenisstraf ondergaan het op die valse beskuldiging van 'n dobbel Jood.

Ons sien in sy portret dat hy kies om  nie tradisionele Engelse aristokratiese klere te dra nie, maar die drag van Turkse reisigers.  Edward Wortley Montagu, Lady Mary’s son. Highly influenced by living in Constantinople while his father was an ambassador, he left England in 1762 to permanently travel in the Middle East and study as an archaeologist. Painted 1775 by Matthew William Peters. Photo Credit: National Portrait Gallery, London.

Hy het teruggekeer om 'n Parlementslid vir Bossiney te wees.  Die rede waarom hy hierdie area verteenwoordig het, was omdat sy pa die Tintagel-landgoed wat in die area geleë was, gekoop het.  To revert to the son's adventures. He was returned member of Parliament for Bossiney — a private borough, with its seventeen eledtors, which was disfranchised by the first Reform Bill. This formed part of the Tintagel estate, which his father had purchased. He wrote a book at this period, called " Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republics, Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain," and this pleased his father; indeed, he seemed, like Falstaff, inclined to " purge and live cleanly " for the rest of his days. But "confidence," said Lord Chatham, " is a plant of  slow growth in an aged bosom ;" and Mr. Wortley was not deceived by appearances, but wholly disinherited his son in favour of his daughter, the Countess of Bute. 

Teen 1763 bevind Edward hom in Alexandria.

And now we come to an episode of this son's life which seems to be almost incredible. He was residing at Alexandria, about the year 1763, when a Captain Ferve, a Dane, arrived there, with his wife, in the capacity of English Consul. The lady was young and very handsome — her maiden name was Catherine Dormer, and she was of English descent, but a Roman Catholic by faith. Wortley Montagu is described at this time as " an amiable man, of much wit and immense erudition, knowing all the European languages, also Latin, ancient and modern Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish." His portrait, by Romney, shows that he possessed a fine countenance and person and he had all the experience of a great traveller. On becoming acquainted with Mrs. Ferve, he fell violently in love and, being determined to possess her, he conceived the plot of employing her husband on a lucrative commission, which would detain him in Europe for some time. During his absence, Wortley Montagu forged letters, and produced a certificate of the death of her husband, which enabled him to make proposals of marriage to the wife. To this she assented, on the condition that he became a Roman Catholic and he was received into the Roman Church at Jerusalem, on the 7th of Odober, 1764. The husband, hearing of this scandalous alliance, hastened back from Europe, and demanded his wife. A lawsuit followed, which was tried in Italy, and Mr. Wortley was triumphant; as the previous marriage was declared null and void, on account of Ferve being a Protestant. Pending the enquiry, the lady had taken refuge in a monastery, near Mount Lebanon, from which she was now released by Mr. Wortley. After residing some time in Smyrna, they returned to Egypt, in 1771, and lived at Rosetta, where this eccentric man conceived the wish to become a Mussulman, and make a pilgrimage to Mecca. He tried to induce his wife to join him in this apostacy, also to acknowledge a negro boy, whom he had adopted, and who finally became his heir, as her own son. She refused both requests, and he left her in 1773, and travelled into Italy, when the lady found a home, with her married sister, in Egypt.

Edward Wortley Montagu. By George Romney in 1775. Photo Credit: Museums Sheffield.

We find Edward in Venice in 1776 where he printed an ad in the Public Advertiser which claimed, …a gentleman, who had sat in two successive Parliaments, was nearly 60 years of age, lived in great splendor and hospitality, and from whom a considerable estate must pass, if he died without issue, was willing to marry a widow, or single lady, of genteel birth and polite manners.   Lord Wharncliffe later describes this advertisement and states that it is believed to have been successful and a woman was sent to Paris to meet Edward however while she was on her way there, Edward was eating dinner and a bone caught in his throat which killed him. No other records can be found on Edward on his living conditions in Venice that he describes in the advertisement. It’s hard to believe that he would have had as much money as he says since he received no inheritance and had no job that was recorded. The ad could have been a ploy just to get a wife so he could create an heir. Though is does raise questions about what happened to the boy he adopted as no more information was ever given about him. (https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17153/Worthley%2C%20Nicole.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)

u.2. Edward WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 08/02/1678

u.2.  Edward, geb. 08/02/1678, of Wortley, Tankersley, Yorkshire, oorl. 01/01/1761, begr. St. Leonard's Churchyard, Wortley, Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, Engeland x 1712 met Lady Mary PIERREPOINT, geb. 15/05/1689, Home Pierrepont, Rushcliffe Borough, Nottinghamshire, England, oorl. 21/08/1762, Mayfair, City of Westminster, Greater London, Engeland, begr. Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair, City of Westminster, Greater London, Engeland, vault, memorial on chapel wall, d.v. Evelyn Pierrepoint, Duke of Kingston en Mary Feilding.

Edward was die seun van Sidney Montague en Anne Newcomen.

(Foster, Joseph:.Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding.  London: 1874)

2^nd son and heir of his father, one of the lords commissioners of the Treasury, and ambassador to the Porte.

Sir Edward Wortley Montagu is opgelei by Westminster School, Trinity College, Cambridge (1693) en opgelei in die regte by die Middle Temple (1693). Hy is in 1699 tot die bar beroep en het in 1706 die Inner Temple binnegegaan.

The second son of Sidney Montagu's marriage was Edward Wortley Montagu, to whom attaches an interesting and romantic story. His elder brother died during the lifetime of their father and Mr. Wortley is presented to us, in his youth, as a fine scholar, with strong literary tastes, and a cool, calculating brain, which served him in good stead, both in private and public life.  (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt) Later in sy volwassenheid het hy 'n vriend van beide Addison en Steele geword, waaraan beweer word dat hy 'n mate van sy genialiteit te danke het. That he became the very intimate friend of both Addison and Steele, is a sufficient testimony to his intellectual culture. (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt)

Edward Wortley Montagu, ambassador in Constantinople 1716-1718. Painted 1730 by John Vanderbank. Photo Credit: Government Art Collection.

Mary Pierrepoint was 'n Engelse aristokraat, skrywer en digter. Sy is  in 1689 gebore en het haar vroeë lewe in Engeland deurgebring. 

Sy is aan die Wortley-gesin voorgestel deur 'n aandete wat mev. Anne Wortley bygewoon het. Die twee het gekorrespondeer deur briewe te skryf en vir etlike jare saam tee te drink, maar baie van die briewe was 'n dekmantel vir die verhouding wat tussen Lady Mary en Edward Wortley Montagu gegroei het nadat hulle ontmoet het by een van die teepartye wat Lady Mary in Wortley Hall bygewoon het. At the age of twenty-two, he met for the first time, at the tea table of his sister, a young lady who was only fourteen years old, a daughter of the Marquis of Dorchester, afterwards Duke of Kingston but who, notwithstanding her early girlhood, fixed his attention and interest, and became the loadstar, whether for happiness or otherwise, of his long protracted life. This child, if we may so speak of her, was singularly precocious. She had already gained a reputation for learning far beyond what ladies of her day were commonly taught. She was deeply read in the old romances then popular, but which are never looked at now and, by indefatigable labour and a strong memory, she had acquired in private study, such a knowledge of the Latin language as enabled her to appreciate the classical authors. (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt)

Sy het aangetrokke geraak tot Edward.  So remarkable a student was at once irresistibly attrac\ive to the temperament and taste of Wortley Montagu and he became the " guide, philosopher, and friend " in her ardent pursuit of hterary and scholastic attainments. On the evening of their first meeting, she had perceived that Mr. Wortley's particular attention was drawn to herself (a dangerous discovery, perhaps, for so romantic a young lady) and, as her intimacy ripened with his two sisters (with one of whom — Mrs. Anne Wortley — she afterwards corresponded unreservedly for several years), it soon occurred that the letters written to her by a female hand were the studied communications of the fascinated brother. All this while, Mary Pierrepoint was prematurely thrust by her widowed father into the society of her elders, for the gratification of his paternal pride in her beauty and talents, which only tended to efface the bloom of youthful feeling from her own nature, and make her the spoilt idol of fashionable life. The vidfim of this mistaken upbringing wrote, in one of her later letters, that "to vanity and credulity all the pleasures of life were owing," a sentiment which seems partially to explain the unsatisfactoriness of her subsequent career. The aid and guidance of her tutor, communicated through letters, or at occasional interviews, gradually rose into the courtship of a permitted suitor  and so we find, in the correspondence of Mrs. Ann Wortley and Lady Mary Pierrepoint, an exchange of compliments and expressions of devotion (always veiled under grandisonian language) which could only pass between two lovers. What the one wrote was intended for the brother, and what the other put on paper in reply was dictated by him. Like the whole correspondence of this remarkable heroine, every letter of Lady Mary smells of the lamp of the study — a tone of some- what ostentatious scholarship is perceptible even in the wit and force of her most familiar outpourings. These measured utterances, the result of a literary training, drew more upon the brain than the heart and the colder temperament of Wortley Montagu, in his dominion over his pupil's affections, rendered her character more artificial than it would otherwise have been. The romance of the lives of this singular couple was more that of the stage than of nature and truth. (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt)

Hul verhouding het in die geheim gegroei en het openlik voortgegaan nadat Anne Wortley gesterf het.  Mrs. Anne Wortley died when her young friend was about twenty and then Mr. Wortley, three years before he married, began to write his own loveletters, and was personally addressed in return. Even after their communication became thus direct, and there was no reserve in admitting a mutual attachment, the lady's letters were still redolent of headwork. They betrayed no joyous flow of sentiment, testifying that she was at ease in the confidence of being the object of warm affection but even in the anticipation of an early union, they assumed a very business-like shape. And yet we are told that " all her letters were written without study, and sent forth without revision. (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt)

Lady Mary se pa, Lord Dorchester, is geraadpleeg oor 'n huwelik tussen die twee en hy het op sekere voorwaardes ingestem. Edward sal sy eiendom op enige toekomstige oudste seun moet vestig. Edward het geweier om dit te doen en het haar pa genoeg kwaad gemaak sodat hy die huwelik verbied het en lady Mary beveel het om met iemand van sy keuse te trou wat meer aan sy versoeke sou voldoen. " As such, they are indeed marvellous productions. Lord Dorchester, when consulted, accepted Mr. Wortley as a husband for his daughter, but on the condition that he settled his property on any future eldest son. To this proposal the suitor would not agree and Lady Mary bowed to his reasoning on the point but she properly stipulated for a settlement in case of her own widowhood. Her father was inexorable, forbade the marriage, and commanded his daughter to prepare for a more compliant suitor. To this she would not assent and the only alternative was an elopement, which must have taken place about August, 1712, as the marriage license is dated the 16th of that month. The lady's father was highly incensed at this step, and for some years refused his forgiveness, as well as any fortune to the fugitive, so that, for their condition, the young couple were poor and the lady lived much in the country, whilst her husband sought political employment  in the capital. During the year after their marriage their only son was born, at what place is not known — certainly not at Wharncliffe. (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Painted 1718, attributed to Jonathan Richardson the Elder. Photo Credit: Museums Sheffield.

Edward was 'n prominente Whig-politikus en was LP vir Huntingdon voordat hy uiteindelik 'n Lord Commissioner of the Treasury van 1714 tot 1715 geword het.

Hy het Ambassadeur van die Ottomaanse Ryk geraak en as verteenwoordiger van die Levant Company verkies op die benoeming van Koning George I op 10 Mei 1716. Hy het op 13 Maart 1717 saam met sy vrou by Adrianopel (nou bekend as Edirne) aangekom. As Ambassadeur was hy belas met die voortsetting van die onderhandelinge tussen die Ottomane en die Habsburgse Ryk. Onsuksesvol in sy posisie is hy nie ambassadeur by die Ottomaanse Porte in Konstantinopel gemaak, voordat hy in Oktober 1717 terruggeroep is nie. Hy het Turkye op 15 Julie 1718 verlaat en vir 'n geruime tyd in die Ooste gereis. Met sy terugkeer na Engeland vanaf Konstantinopel het hy 'n parlementslid vir Huntingdon (1722–1734) en Peterborough (1734 tot sy dood in 1761) gebly.  Edward Wortley in making his decision to leave the political realm and travel the Middle East did leave him with no inheritance but showed that the family was interested in more than just military and political affairs. (https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17153/Worthley%2C%20Nicole.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)

Lady Mary het by haar man in die Ottomaanse ekskursie aangesluit, waar sy die volgende twee jaar van haar lewe sou deurbring. Gedurende haar tyd daar het Lady Mary breedvoerig geskryf oor haar ervaring as 'n vrou in Ottomaanse Istanbul. Na haar terugkeer na Engeland het Lady Mary haar aandag aan die opvoeding van haar gesin gewy voordat sy in 1762 aan kanker gesterf het.  In the following year Mr. Wortley was made one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and then his wife appeared at Court and became a great favourite of the king, being the only English lady whom George I admitted amongst his German coterie. In January, 1717, Mr. Wortley was appointed our ambassador at Constantinople, whither his wife and infant son both accompanied him and here was their only other child born, who ultimately became the Countess of Bute, wife of the Prime Minister, and succeeded to the Wortley estates. I have said that Mr. Wortley's income was only small, until he succeeded to his father's estates. the aged father, in his rude lodge at Wharncliffe, whilst rebuilding the hall, four years before his death, which took place in 1761, when he was eighty years old  (https://archive.org/stream/wortleywortleysl00gatt/wortleywortleysl00gatt_djvu.txt)

Lady Mary and first born, Edward, named after her husband Edward Wortley Montagu. Painted c. 1717, attributed to Jean-Baptiste Vanmour. Photo Credit: National Portrait Gallery, London.

Mary Wortley Montagu in 1739

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu is een van die meer bekende Wortleys vanweë die groot hoeveelheid poësie en prosa wat sy geskryf het terwyl sy in Konstantinopel gewoon het.  Lady Mary word vandag hoofsaaklik onthou vir haar briewe, veral haar Turkse ambassadebriewe wat haar reise na die Ottomaanse Ryk beskryf, as vrou van die Britse ambassadeur in Turkye.

Mary Wortley Montagu in Turkish dress

Lady Montagu in Turkish Dress by Jean-Étienne Liotard, c. 1756, Palace on the Water in Warsaw

Afgesien van haar skryfwerk, is Lady Mary ook bekend daarvoor dat sy na haar terugkeer uit Turkye vir pokke-inenting in Brittanje bekendgestel en bepleit het.  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was die eerste ma in Engeland wat 'n kind teen pokke laat 'ent' het - vermoedelik die eerste in Europa buite die Ottomaanse Ryk. As die vrou van Engeland se ambassadeur in Konstantinopel het sy die praktyk daar waargeneem en het reeds een kind laat ingeënt voordat sy na Engeland teruggekeer het. Die praktyk het behels dat die virus deur 'n sny aan die bo-arm aan die kind bekendgestel word. Beide Lady Mary se kinders het oorleef, en sy het 'n kampvegter vir inenting geword, wat selfs koninklikes oorreed het om ingeënt te word. Die inentings het gewerk en was baie veiliger as natuurlike infeksie. Dit was in 1721, 75 jaar voordat Edward Jenner inenting ontwikkel het, 'n veiliger metode wat dieselfde beginsel gebruik om 'n immuunreaksie uit te lok. (https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-pioneering-life-of-mary-wortley-montagu-scientist-and-feminist/)

Willet se biografie dek haar lewe in detail en is fassinerende literatuur.  While in Constantinople, Lady Mary gained her international prestige. Small pox was well known during this time as being extremely lethal, Lady Mary was herself diagnosed, and survived though without her eyelashes and with her beauty being impaired. Because of this, Lady Mary was determined to save her children from the horrors of the disease. She took her four year old son and gave him the small pox inoculation in both arms. According to American civil war medical books, this inoculation consisted of making a small incision in the arm of the patient of placing a scab of someone infected with the disease into the cut. Sew it up and wait a few days for it to take. This being similar to vaccinations today that carry strains of the virus was not always successful so for Lady Mary to perform this on her own four year old was highly discussed and looked down upon. Having succeeded in saving her children, she returned to England two years later to public and medical opposition to the inoculation. She persisted among many medical communities and her influence led to the establishment of the vaccine. This left such a lasting impact on the community that in Lichfield Cathedral there is a female figure in marble leaning on an urn inscribed: 

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHT HONORABLE LADT MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, WHO HAPPILY INTRODUCED, FROM TURKEY, INTO THIS COUNTRY, THE SALUTARY ART OF INOCULATING THE SMALL-POX. CONVINCED OF ITS EFFICACY AND THEN RECOMMENDED THE PRACTICE OF IT TO HER FELLOW CITIZENS THUS, BY HER EXAMPLE AND ADVICE, WE HAVE SOFTENED THE VIRULENCE, AND ESCAPED THE DANGER OF THIS MALIGNANT DISEASE TO PERPETUATE THE MEMORY OF SUCH BENEVOLENCE AND TO EXPRESS HER GRATITUDE FOR THE BENEFIT SHE HERSELF RECEIVED FROM THIS ALLEVIATING ART, THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY HENRIETTA INGE RELICT OF THEODORE WILLIAM INGE, ESQ., AND DAUGHTER OF SIR JOHN WROTTESLEY, BART., IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, MDCCLXXXIX67

Memorial to the Right Honorable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu showing inscription dedicating small pox inoculation to her.

The inscription and statue dedicated to Lady Mary show the lasting impression she made to the world around her. Not every person gets a memorial made for them, in marble no less. While Lady Mary did not go to Constantinople with the intention of changing how society looked at medicine, the decision she made to give her children the small pox inoculation could have been the moment needed for the medical community to see that it in fact worked, and that the upper classes were willing to perform such an invasive procedure on their children. This strategy to literally keep the family surviving and is a stark contrast to how previous members of the family kept the name going. (https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17153/Worthley%2C%20Nicole.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)

Haar skryfwerke het ook die belemmerende sosiale houdings teenoor vroue en hul intellektuele en sosiale groei aangespreek.

Lady Mary committed herself to a voluntary exile in 1739 which lasted more than 20 years. Another reason that has been entertained as to the reason behind her exile was because of her tensions with the Pope. Several of her writings, those mostly involved with women’s rights, caused her to be attacked by several high standing officials within England. (https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17153/Worthley%2C%20Nicole.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)

Alexander Pope declared his love to Lady Mary, who responded with laughter.

In 1743, Edward Wortley Montagu used the advowson of Ordsall Church to install the rev. Thomas Cockshutt II as the vicar of Ordsall, East Retford. Thomas would become the vicar general to the Canons of Southwell Minster. (https://www.topforge.co.uk/wortley-people-in-history/)

Van 1757 tot 1761 het Edward Wortley Montagu, Wortley Hall opgeknap en die Oosvleuel bygevoeg. Met sy dood het hy die Hall en 'n groot fortuin aan sy dogter Mary nagelaat, nadat hy in 1755 sy seun Edward met slegs 'n klein toelaag afgesny het. Mary was getroud met die toekomstige Eerste Minister, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute.

Die volgende monumente van die familie is in St Leonards kerk in Wortley.

Edward Wortley Montagu.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175490029/edward-wortley_montagu

Mary Wortley Montagu

Kinders:

v.1.  Edward WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 1713, oorl. 1776

v.2.  Mary WORTLEY MONTAGU, geb. 19/01/1718, Contantinople, oorl. 06/11/1794, Isleworth, Middlesex, begr. St. Leonard's Churchyard, Wortley x 24/08/1736 met John STUART, geb. 25/05/1713, Parliament Close, Edinburgh, oorl. 10/03/1792, 3rd Earl of Bute, oorl. 10/03/1792, South Audley Street, Grosvenor Square, Westminster, begr. Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, s.v. James Stuart, 2nd Earl of Bute en Lady Anne Campbell.