Montagu Burrows

He served on anti-piracy patrols on the East Indies Station under Henry Ducie Chads and was decorated for his service at the bombardment of Acre in 1840.

Burrows competed for it and was selected as its first occupant over younger competitors, including William Stubbs, Edward Freeman, and James Anthony Froude.

[3] Burrows married Mary Anna, third daughter of Sir James Whalley Smythe Gardiner, 3rd Baronet, of Roche Court, Fareham, on 13 September 1849.

[4] They had three sons: Edward Henry (b.1851), Stephen Montagu (b.1856) and Alfred (b.1860); and one daughter, Frances Emily (b.1853) who married Charles Perry Scott, the Bishop of North China.

Charles Oman, who had been appointed Deputy Chichele Professor of Modern History in 1900, was elected Burrows' successor in the Chair in December 1905.