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His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.
In 1767, he bought for £40,000 Stanhope and Stobo in Peeblesshire, part of the estates of Sir David Murray, which had been confiscated for their owner's complicity in the rebellion of 1745.
He married, firstly, Lady Elizabeth Douglas, daughter of Dunbar Douglas, 4th Earl of Selkirk and Helen Hamilton, on 1 August 1804.
The resolution being carried, Montgomery was named one of three commissioners that for the shires to offer the Scottish crown to William and Mary.