John Montagu, 4th earl of Sandwich

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John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, oil painting after a portrait by John Zoffany in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Anniversary information added.		Apr 30, 2024
	First paragraph modernization.	Encyclopaedia Britannica	Apr 05, 2024
	Anniversary information added.		Nov 10, 2023
	Noted the probable apocryphal nature of the story regarding Sandwich's name being given to sandwiches as a result of his eating them during a 24-hour gaming binge.	Jeff Wallenfeldt	Nov 27, 2018
	Invalidated site: ''Smithsonian Magazine'' article on the Earl's Love Triangle.	Thinley Kalsang Bhutia	Jan 07, 2015
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998