The Earl of Sandwich
Crossbench
Member of the House of Lords
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The Earl of Sandwich is deceased. His full title was The Earl of Sandwich. His name was John Edward Hollister Montagu.
Allowance claims · 2026
Data not yet released for 2026 — the Lords Finance Office publishes monthly CSVs ~6-8 weeks after month-end.
Lords votes · 2026
No Lords votes recorded for 2026.
Recent Hansard contributions · latest 25
2024-05-17
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and International Committee of the Red Cross (Status) Bill
My Lords, it is a privilege to be sandwiched between two younger Members of the House, and to hear what they say.
I thank my noble friend for presenting the Bill with clarity and, in doing so, I must thank her for her friendship over many years, in an
2024-03-25
Christians: Persecution
My Lords, I start with an admission to the noble Baroness, Lady Foster. I have not taken much interest in persecuted Christians until now, because I have always assumed that Christianity had distinct advantages over other religions. There are stronger ex
2024-02-29
Situation in the Red Sea
My Lords, has the FCDO sufficiently studied the people of north Yemen, who are quite different from those in the south? In the view of some experts, they are irrepressible. What is the reaction of international diplomacy to that?
2024-02-29
Myanmar: Health System
My Lords, the right reverend Prelate gave me an idea and I was about to write something down, but it is too late.
There are wars we follow on television every day and there are hidden wars, as in Myanmar. We owe a huge debt to my noble friend for focu
My Lords, I admire the determination of the Daughters’ Rights group behind this and that of the noble Lord, Lord Northbrook, himself in supporting his daughter by introducing this Private Member’s Bill. However, if I were invited to vote to end hereditar
My Lords, may I ask the Minister a very brief question? I was on the committee at about the time he joined so he may not remember this, but as a committee we were very strongly in favour of the department bringing out a trade policy paper which would hig
2024-01-11
Climate Change: Impact on Developing Nations
My Lords, it is an extremely hard act to follow the noble Lord, so I shall not. My thanks today go to the noble Baroness, who over many years has been a stalwart of international development in this House and, more recently, on the effects of climate cha
My Lords, trade has always been a subtle and underrated form of foreign policy and, before he leaves, I welcome the new Foreign Secretary to the House for this debate, and I wish him well. He has just returned from Ukraine and I hope that, as a by-produc
2023-10-17
Western Balkans: Dayton Peace Agreement
My Lords, once again, the noble Baroness has tabled an important debate. I thank her sincerely for this opportunity and for bringing such valuable experience to the House. After all, as she said, we were at one time a spearhead of enlargement of the EU a
2023-09-14
Healthcare: Controlled Drugs
My Lords, I too support my noble friend, and I am grateful to him for this chance to address a related subject of great concern: the highly damaging effects of the use of certain drugs prescribed in good faith. Older colleagues may recall that some years
2023-09-12
Mr Jagtar Singh Johal
My Lords, my noble friend mentioned the trade deal which has been going through with India. Can he reassure the House that the human rights dialogue continues and is unaffected? Can he give other examples of cases we have taken up?
2023-07-12
Support for Migrant Victims
My Lords, was this not meant to be one of the flagships of the Conservative Government? Tackling violence against women is claimed by a lot of people to be a really important theme of Conservative policy, and I would like to know why the noble Baroness,
2023-07-06
International Widows Day
My Lords, every time I hear my noble friend Lord Loomba in these debates, I feel that he personifies international development at the ground level, where it matters. Poverty, hunger and ill health are the three issues heading the UN’s priority list of su
2023-06-06
Kosovo and the Western Balkans Region
My Lords, following on from the question from the noble Lord, Lord Collins, does the Minister not think that the election issue is the critical one? If we still have any influence outside the EU, we should bring the two Prime Ministers together to discu
2023-05-24
Sudan: Refugees
Can the Minister confirm that as much as 17,000 metric tonnes were looted from WFP warehouses in Khartoum in the early stages of the crisis? The WFP itself is 15% funded for its work not just in Sudan but in South Sudan, including with those returning ev
2023-05-24
United Nations Population Fund Report
My Lords, the Minister has given us an impressive list of programmes for women and girls and emphasised the human rights, which is correct, but no mention was made of men. Presumably men are the target of family planning programmes as well. Do the Govern
2023-04-26
Sudan
My Lords, the Minister will already know that this is not a new situation. He will also know that this morning a report from the All-Party Group on Sudan and South Sudan was published, examining progressive genocide over 20 years in Darfur and elsewhere.
2023-03-20
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
My Lords, I know that my noble friend Lord Kerr would have loved to be here. I am speaking on behalf of the Cross Benches. I was a member of the IAC until January; the Minister will remember that we had some animated conversations when he first came on t
2023-03-07
Israel and Palestine
My Lords, my noble and right reverend friend and I shared experience of the Middle East when we were both board members of Christian Aid. I am delighted to join him again in this debate and congratulate him on bringing up once again a very difficult subj
2023-02-08
Turkey and Syria Earthquake
My Lords, does the Minister agree that the DEC should be congratulated for getting off the mark much faster than usual? This is going to be very reassuring to all those who have donated. I recall from my time with some of the DEC members that there was a
2023-02-06
Rwanda: Memorandum of Understanding
My Lords, it was a credit to the Conservative Party under David Cameron that they took up the cause of Rwanda—a country which had suffered the worst genocide the world had known since the last war. The return to political and economic stability under Pa
2023-02-06
Turkey: Earthquake Relief
My Lords, what are we doing about aerial damage assessments? Now that we are not in the EU, I presume that we do not have access to the Copernicus satellite. How are we coping with that? Are we co-ordinating with European neighbours?
2023-01-09
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill
My Lords, I shall start with enthusiasm, but I may not be able to keep it up. The Australia and New Zealand agreements have been trailblazers among the FTAs post Brexit and I am glad that the Minister and the International Agreements Committee, to which
2022-12-09
UK Asylum and Refugee Policy
My Lords, the end is nigh—not for all refugees, but possibly for lunch. I start with the unfortunate remarks of the senior lady-in-waiting last week. She asked a visitor, “Who are you and where are you from?” Perhaps the questions were not entirely innoc
2022-11-17
Human Rights: India
As we have a minute or two in reserve, can I just ask a factual question? The Minister cannot answer for the Department for International Trade, clearly, but it would be interesting to know how often on the present trade deal the Foreign Office has inter
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Register of Interests · 5 entries on file
Declarations under the Lords Code of Conduct. Free text — no monetary values, no hours worked. A declaration that an interest exists, not a claim about its size.
Category 1: Remunerated employment etc.
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Earl of Sandwich (BRANDCO) LTD (brand licensing company)
registered 2010-04-15 · amended 2025-04-05
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Regular earned income from life tenancy of agricultural estate in West Dorset
registered 2010-04-15 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 2: Shareholdings etc. (b)
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Earl of Sandwich (FAMILYCO) AG (brand licensing company)
registered 2017-06-27 · amended 2025-04-05
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Earl of Sandwich (BRANDCO) LTD (brand licensing company)
registered 2010-04-15 · amended 2025-04-05
Category 3: Land and property
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Life tenant of agricultural estate in West Dorset including residential property, visitor attractions and woodland
registered 2010-04-15 · amended 2025-04-05
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Party history
1995-04-26 → 2024-05-20
Crossbench
Government posts
None recorded.
Opposition posts
None recorded.
Committee memberships
1999-12-06 → 2004-11-18
Standing Orders (Private Bills) Committee (Lords)
2002-11-25 → 2004-11-18
Information Committee (Lords)
2005-06-08 → 2006-04-08
Constitution Committee
2010-06-22 → 2015-03-30
European Union Committee
2012-05-17 → 2013-05-21
EU Sub Committee E - Justice, Institutions and Consumer Protection
2013-05-21 → 2015-03-30
EU Sub Committee C - External Affairs
2019-07-02 → 2020-04-23
EU External Affairs Sub-Committee
2020-04-23 → 2023-01-31
International Agreements Committee
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APPGs (2026) · 1 active officership(s) · 6 historic
| Group | Role(s) | Funders | Officers in group | Next deadline |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence
Subject Group
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Officer | Council for Evidence-Based Psychiatry | 9 | 2024-02-09 |
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Written parliamentary questions · 2026
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Bills sponsored & supported · 2026
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