About Edward Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu
Edward John Barrington Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (20 October 1926 – 31 August 2015), was a British aristocrat and Conservative politician, best known for founding the National Motor Museum, as well as for a pivotal cause célèbre following his 1954 conviction and imprisonment for alleged homosexual activity, a charge he denied. == Early life == Montagu was born at his grandparents' house in Thurloe Square, South Kensington, London, and inherited his barony in 1929 at the age of two, when his father John died of pneumonia. He held his peerage for the third longest time (86 years and 155 days) anyone has held a British peerage (the others being the 7th Marquess Townshend at 88 years, and the 13th Lord Sinclair at 87 years). His mother was his father's second wife, Alice Crake (1895–1996). He attended St Peter's Court, a prep school at Broadstairs in Kent, then Ridley College in Canada, Eton College and finally New College, Oxford. After the end of World War II in Europe in 1945, Lord Montagu was called up for National Service and commissioned into the Grenadier Guards as a Lieutenant. He was stationed with the 3rd Battalion in Palestine from 1945 until 1947, performing internal security operations before the end of the British Mandate. On coming of age in 1948 Lord Montagu immediately took his seat in the House of Lords, giving his maiden speech on the subject of Palestine soon thereafter. He read Modern History at Oxford but left without taking a degree after his rooms were smashed up in a fight between members of the Bullingdon Club, of which he was one, and the Oxford University Dramatic Society. == Activities == Lord Montagu gained an interest in motoring from his father – who had commissioned the original Spirit of Ecstasy mascot for his Rolls-Royce – and with his family collection of historic cars this led him to open the National Motor Museum in the grounds of his stately home, Beaulieu Palace House, Beaulieu, Hampshire, in 1952.
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