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Montagu, Edwin Samuel

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Montagu, Edwin Samuel (1879–1924)

British Liberal politician. He was financial secretary to the Treasury in 1914 and 1915, privy councillor and chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in 1915, and minister of munitions in 1916. As secretary of state for India 1917–22, he collaborated in the Montagu–Chelmsford report, which changed the Indian constitution and gave Indians greater political control at the local level.

Montagu was the second son of the 1st Baron Swaythling. He was educated at Cambridge and was elected a member of Parliament in 1906.



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