Montagu Sharpe

Sir Montagu Sharpe KBE DL (28 October 1857 – 23 August 1942) was an English politician, lawyer, amateur archaeologist, antiquarian, and ornithologist.

Montagu Sharpe came from an old Middlesex family that owned Hanwell Park.

He was born at Hanwell to Lt Cmdr Benjamin Sharpe of the Royal Navy and his wife Marianne Fanny Montagu, daughter of the Rev.

He was active in the introduction of the Importation of Plumage (Prohibition) Bill and involved in framing initial drafts.

[1] He wrote a local history, Middlesex in British, Roman and Saxon Times (1919),[2] in which he suggested that the Roman system of centuriation could be seen in the layout of old manors, but his idea was viewed sceptically by other historians of the period.