Edwin Samuel Montagu

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Cartoon in Punch magazine 14 July 1920, on the occasion of Montagu labelling as "frightful" General Dyer for his role in the Amritsar massacre, as it was then known.

Edwin Samuel Montagu PC (February 6, 1879 – November 15, 1924) was a British Liberal politician, the second son and seventh child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling.

First elected as an MP in 1906, Edwin Montagu was Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922.

He was the second Jew to enter the British Cabinet but was strongly opposed to Zionism, which he called "a mischievous political creed." He opposed the Balfour Declaration, which he considered "anti-semitic" and whose terms he managed to modify. He was opposed by his cousin Herbert Samuel, a moderate Zionist who became the first High Commissioner of Palestine.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Walter Raymond Greene	Member of Parliament for Chesterton 1906–1918	Succeeded by Constituency abolished
Preceded by Constituency created	Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire 1918–1922	Succeeded by Harold William Stannus Gray
Political offices
Preceded by Master of Elibank	Under-Secretary of State for India 1910–1914	Succeeded by Charles Henry Roberts
Preceded by Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1915	Succeeded by Winston Churchill
Preceded by Herbert Samuel	Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster 1916	Succeeded by Thomas McKinnon Wood
Preceded by David Lloyd George	Minister of Munitions 1916	Succeeded by Christopher Addison
Preceded by Austen Chamberlain	Secretary of State for India 1917–1922	Succeeded by The Viscount Peel