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Sir Edward Wortley Montagu (8 February 1678 – 22 January 1761) was British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, husband of the writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and father of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu.

Son of Sidney Wortley Montagu and grandson of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, a Cambridge graduate and lawyer, Wortley Montagu is best known for his correspondence with, seduction of, and elopement with the aristocratic writer, Mary, daughter of Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Montagu himself was a prominent Whig politician, eventually becoming a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1714 to 1715 and from 1716 to 1718 Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in Constantinople. As Ambassador, he was charged with pursuing the ongoing negotiations between the Ottomans and the Habsburg Empire.

Upon his return from Constantinople, he fell out with the Whig hierarchy, but remained a Member of Parliament until his death in 1761.

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The Life of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Robert Halsband - Clarendon Press - 1956

Parliament of England
Preceded by The Earl of Orrery Anthony Hammond	Member of Parliament for Huntingdon with Sir John Cotton 1705–1706 John Pedley 1706–1707 1705–1707	Succeeded by Parliament of Great Britain
Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Parliament of England	Member of Parliament for Huntingdon with John Pedley 1707–1708 Francis Page 1708–1713 1707–1713	Succeeded by Viscount Hinchingbrooke Sidney Wortley Montagu
Preceded by Thomas Medlycott Sir Thomas Crosse	Member of Parliament for Westminster with Sir Thomas Crosse 1715–1722	Succeeded by Archibald Hutcheson John Cotton
Preceded by Viscount Hinchingbrooke Sidney Wortley Montagu	Member of Parliament for Huntingdon with Roger Handasyde 1722–1734	Succeeded by Roger Handasyde Edward Montagu
Preceded by Joseph Banks Armstead Parker	Member of Parliament for Peterborough with Armstead Parker 1734–1741, 1742–1747 The Earl FitzWilliam 1741–1742 Sir Matthew Lamb 1747–1761 1734–1761	Succeeded by Sir Matthew Lamb Armstead Parker
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by Sir Robert Sutton	British Ambassador to the Ottaman Empire 1716-1718	Succeeded by Abraham Stanyan