Caribbean links of the Montagu family at Boughton House

Britain’s Hidden Heritage: BBC 1, Sunday 28th August 2011 focussed on Boughton House without any ref to the slavery links of the Montagu family

There is just a glimpse of a black servant in a shot of ancestral portraits at
Boughton. No mention is made of this black presence though.

In a portrait of Lady Mary Churchill, Duchess of Montagu painted in the 1720s, attributed to Enoch Seeman, is a black servant called Charles (identified in the family cash books as 'ye Black of her Grace').

Thanks to Jan Marsh (NPG) for key details.