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About Elizabeth Montagu
Lady Elizabeth Montagu, known as Betty Montagu, was a British novelist, nurse, and art collector. The daughter of the 9th Earl of Sandwich and American heiress Alberta Sturges, she grew up at Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdon and was educated at North Foreland Lodge. When war broke out in Europe, she began work as a nurse, eventually heading the casualties department at St Thomas' Hospital in London. After the war ended, she served on the teaching staff at the Royal College of Nursing until 1950.
Everything about Elizabeth Montagu →- Occupation
- art collector, model, writer, novelist
- Born
- 1917
- Died
- January 10, 2006