Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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L&M: “Sidney [1650-1727], the second (and favourite) son, was given what his father called ‘a liberal breeding’ — his schooling in Paris 1661-4, a Grand Tour of the Continent 1669-71, and in between a spell in Madrid at the embassy. He served in the army as an ensign and sat for Huntingdon in the first Exclusion Parliament. He took the name Wortley-Montagu on marrying a Yorkshire heiress, and lived on her estates for most of his life. His daughter-in-law Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu has a description of him wearing ‘a huge flapped hat, seated majestically in his elbow chair, talking very loud and swearing boisterously at his servants’.”
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After reading that the three Montagu boys Sidney, Oliver and John were sent to the Pepys household on August 13th
(http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/08/13/index.php ) to escape a smallpox outbreak, it is very interesting to find out that- the Lady Mary Wortley-Montague already mentioned above, Sidney’s future daughter-in-law, was scarred in the face by small-pox herself when young
- and maybe partly for that reason was very interested to find out - while living in Turkey as an ambassador’s wife - the turkish habit of “inoculating” children in a primitive way.
- that she promoted this inoculation in Britain and had her two sons (Sidney’s grandchildren) inoculated this way, one in Turkey and one in Britain.
See Vicente’s entry on Smallpox
http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/363.php
http://www.foundersofscience.net/lady_mary_montagu.htm