montague

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A member of Romeo's family in William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
By analogy with the Shakespearean play, a member or citizen of the family, party, or country of the husband in a Romeo and Juliet couple
A surname, variant of Montagu
A member of Romeos family in William Shakespeares Romeo & Juliet
{i} family name; male first name; Romeo's family name in Shakespeare's tragedy "Romeo and Juliet"; town in Prince Edward Island (Canada); name of several towns in the USA
(3 syl ) The head of a faction in Verona (Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet) The device of the family is a mountain with sharply-peaked crest (mont-agu or acu)
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Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie
born Jan. 17, 1883, West Hartlepool, Durham, Eng. died Nov. 30, 1972, Edinburgh, Scot. British novelist and playwright. Educated at Oxford University, he gave up legal studies to finish his first play, The Gentleman in Grey (1906). During World War I he directed the Aegean Intelligence Service in Syria; when he wrote about those experiences in Greek Memories (1932), he was prosecuted under Britain's Official Secrets Act. He founded Gramophone magazine in 1923 and edited it until 1962. He served as rector of Glasgow University (1931-34) and as literary critic for the London Daily Mail; his more than 100 novels, plays, and biographies include 10 volumes of memoirs