Lady Mary Faith Montagu

Lady Mary Faith Culme-Seymour, formerly Lady Mary Faith Nesbitt, was a British aristocrat and letter writer. The daughter of George Montagu, 9th Earl of Sandwich and Alberta Montagu, Countess of Sandwich, she grew up at the family's ancestral seat, Hinchingbrooke House in Huntingdon. When her brother, Victor Montagu, 10th Earl of Sandwich, sold the family home in 1955, Lady Faith took her close friend, the novelist E. M. Forster, to see it one last time. Her last tour of the home with Forster was an emotional one, and she documented the experience in her diary and in letters. She and Forster, who initially offered her advice on short story writing, remained friends until his death.