Edward Montagu of Boughton Castle

Sir Edward Montagu (c. 1530 – 26 January 1602) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1559.

Career Montagu was the eldest surviving son of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton House, near Kettering and his third wife Helen Roper, daughter of John Roper of Well Hall, Eltham. In 1556, he succeeded on the death of his father to eleven manors, Barnwell Castle, the baronial residence at Boughton, and the patronage of eight livings in Northamptonshire. He extended his possessions by a grant of concealed lands in Northamptonshire, and bought the manor of Trafford and woods near Brigstock and property at Newton, Overdean and Woodhall Bedfordshire.

He attended the funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots on 1 August 1587 as treasurer. From 1588 to 1589 he was Sheriff of Northamptonshire again and in 1590 was a commissioner for recusancy in the 1590s. He served his fourth term as sheriff of Northamptonshire from 1600 to 1601.

Montagu died at the age of about 70. He was described as an "earnest furtherer" of religion and was known as "the friend of Kettering". Many of his contemporaries remarked on his piety and justice, his wisdom and service to the count. their son was Arthur Capell, 1st Baron Capell of Hadham.