Rear Admiral Victor Alexander Montagu CB (20 April 1841 – 30 January 1915) was an English first-class cricketer and Royal Navy officer.

The son of John Montagu, 7th Earl of Sandwich and Lady Mary Paget, he was born at Westminster in April 1841.

He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet six months short of his twelfth birthday in 1853,[3] with encouragement from his father and misgivings from his mother.

[5] In December 1853 with the Crimean War waging, he was posted HMS Princess Royal, commanded by his uncle, Lord Clarence Paget.

In October 1854, owing to ill health, Lord Paget transferred Montagu to his old ship, HMS St George.

[17] When Lord Paget was invalided, he was replaced as captain by Sir Lewis Jones, who retained Montagu in his role as aide-de-camp.

[18] He was present for the heaviest bombardment of Sevastopol which took place in September 1855,[19] while in October he sailed with a detachment of the 63rd Foot for their assault on a fortified spit near the entrance of the Sea of Azov.

[20] Following the end of the war, Montagu returned to England via Constantinople, where he was a guest of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, and the Greek Islands, where he had his first experience of yacht racing.

[21] For his service in the Crimean War, he was decorated by the Ottoman Empire with the Order of the Medjidie, Fifth Class in April 1858, at which point he held the rank of midshipman.

[22] Montagu briefly served in the Mediterranean Fleet as a midshipman aboard the dispatch boat HMS Foxhound under the command of A. C.

[25] After several months at sea, Raleigh came to within thirty miles of Hong Kong, when on 14 April 1857 the ship struck uncharted rocks.

[31] After shore leave in Hong Kong, Montagu was ordered to return to the Pearl where it was to sail for Calcutta to help in the effort to suppress the Indian Mutiny.

Montagu was not initially part of the first detachment and spent six weeks in Calcutta, where he socialised with Lord and Lady Canning.

[34] The additions to the brigade were ordered to reinforce Sotheby and sailed aboard a steamer up the Ganges past Benares, before disembarking at Patna in November.

[36] The brigade initially fortified their position on the basis of superior rebel numbers, with Montagu noting general mistreatment of natives by British forces.

From later December to February 1858, Montagu was charged with sending out detachments to burn rebel villages and the houses of Rajas.

[42] The brigade final action came in December 1858, at Toolsepore on the edge of the Terai jungle, where the rebels were rumoured to be making a grand last stand.

The rebels were engaged and fled, with Montagu pursuing them for three days toward Intwa, joining up with the forces of Sir Hope Grant.

[26] Having returned to England in June 1859, Montagu was afforded two months leave, after which he was appointed to HMS Algiers of the Channel Fleet.

[52] Montagu retired from active service in January 1885, having decided to do so as his deafness, which he had contracted from malaria during the mutiny, had become profoundly worse, coupled with other personal affairs.