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John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, PC, FRS (13 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) [1] was a British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten.
The second Earl's great-grandson was The 4th Earl of Sandwich, who was a prominent statesman and served as First Lord of the Admiralty and as Secretary of State for the Northern Department. Lord Sandwich is also remembered for sponsoring the voyages of discovery made by Captain James Cook , R.N. , who named the Sandwich Islands in his honour ...
Earl of Sandwich has franchising plans in the United States and the United Kingdom, including the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first Earl of Sandwich franchise opened in Sugar Land, Texas , and is owned by an investment group which includes Nolan Ryan and Roger Clemens . [ 2 ]
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The sandwich is named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. [8] [9] It is commonly said that Lord Sandwich, during long sessions of cribbage and other card games at public gambling houses, would order his valet to bring him roast beef between two pieces of toasted bread. [9]
John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c. 1350 –1400), English nobleman; John Montagu (Trinity) (c. 1650 –1728), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1683–1699; John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690–1749), British peer; John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718–1792), British statesman, claimed to be the eponymous inventor of the sandwich
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, 27 July 1625 to 28 May 1672, was an English military officer, politician and diplomat from Barnwell, Northamptonshire. During the First English Civil War , he served with the Parliamentarian army, and was a Member of Parliament at various times between 1645 and 1660.
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, (1625–72), KG, of Hinchingbrooke, Huntingdonshire. Jemima Crew (1625–1674), daughter of John, 1st Baron Crew. Sarah Rogers. On death of her nephew, John Rogers (1685–1758), the coal-mines of the Denton Hall estate, which had been bought by her father in 1689 and 1705 were inherited by her son Edward; [9]