MONTEATH-DOUGLAS, Sir Thomas (son of Thomas Monteath). b. 1787; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 4 Dec. 1806, lieut. 9 Sep. 1808; captain 35 N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut.-col. 2 April 1834 to 3 Nov. 1843; commanded his regiment in Afghan war 1838–9 and a brigade in Afghan war 1842; A.D.C. to the queen 4 Oct. 1842 to 1854; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 3 Nov. 1843 to 30 Sep. 1845; col. of 68 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1846 and of 35 N.I. 1846 to death; commandant at Umballa 10 March 1846 to 10 Jany. 1851; general 9 April 1865; C.B. 29 Dec. 1839, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; took additional name of Douglas by r.l. 18 Dec. 1850. d. Stonebyres, Lanarkshire 18 Oct. 1868. I.L.N. liii 435, 459, 483 (1868).
MONTEFIORE, Joseph Barron (son of Eleazor Montefiore and a cousin of sir M. Montefiore). b. 1802; in partnership with his brother Jacob Montefiore, acquired town allotments in Adelaide, South Australia, which became very valuable; founder of the West London synagogue, the place of worship of the reform section of Jewish community; resided 36 Kensington sq. gardens, London. d. 1 Pavilion parade, Brighton 4 Sep. 1893.
MONTEFIORE, Sir Moses Haim, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Joseph Elias Montefiore b. London 15 Oct. 1759, Italian merchant, d. 11 Jany. 1804). b. Via Reale, Leghorn 24 Oct. 1784; with Johnson Mc Culloch and co. provision merchants, Eastcheap, London; one of the twelve Jewish brokers on the London stock exchange; partner with his brother Benjamin Montefiore; stock brokers for Nathan Meyer Rothschild 1812; retired 1824, having made a large fortune; one of the 25 lavadores 1808; member of the united deputies of British Jews 1827; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1837 and of Kent 1847; knighted 9 Nov. 1837; made his first visit to Palestine 1827; obtained from sultan of Turkey a firman placing Jews on same footing as other aliens throughout Ottoman empire Nov. 1840; granted by the queen privilege of bearing supporters to his arms 1841; created a baronet 23 July 1846; founded at Jerusalem a girls’ school and hospital 1855; undertook a mission to Morocco where he arrived 26 Jany. 1864; admitted to freedom of Fishmongers’ company 14 May 1874; made his seventh and last pilgrimage to Jerusalem 1875; m. 10 June 1812 Judith 2 dau. of Levi Barent Cohen, she was author of Private journal of a visit to Egypt and Palestine by way of Italy and the Mediterranean 1836, she d. 24 Sep. 1862. He d. East Cliff lodge, Ramsgate 28 July 1885. bur. in a private mausoleum on his estate. Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore. Edited by L. Loewe (1890), portrait; L. Wolf’s Sir M. Montefiore (1884), portrait; J. Weston’s Sir M. Montefiore (1885), portrait; J. Picciotto’s Sketches of Anglo-Jewish history (1875) 347–58; J. B. Bailey’s Modern Methusalahs (1888) 329–91; I.L.N. xxxiv 309 (1859) portrait, xlvi 153 (1865) portrait; Graphic xii 126, 144 (1876) portrait, xxviii 409 (1883) portrait.
MONTEITH, Alexander Earle (son of Robert Monteith of Rochsoles d. 1806). b. 1793; called to the bar 1814; sheriff of Fife 1838; a comr. on the Scottish universities, prepared the reports on Aberdeen and Glasgow; a comr. on the lunacy commission, and on commission on working of Forbes Mackenzie act; a member of the general prison board; joined the Free church movement 1843 and was an active supporter of the church; author of Two letters on the evidences of revealed religion (1862), memoir pp. 1–34 portrait. d. Inverleith house, Edinburgh 12 Jany. 1861. Wylie’s Disruption Worthies (1881) 413–8.
MONTEITH, William (son of Wm. Monteith). b. Abbey parish, Paisley 22 June 1790; lieut. Madras engineers 18 March 1809, col. 13 May 1839, retired 10 Dec. 1847; commanded a frontier force of cavalry against the Russians 1810–13; present at Persian head quarters in the war against Russia 1826, comr. for payment of indemnity of £400,000 exacted from Persia by Russia 1828; chief engineer at Madras July 1832 to Jany. 1834 and Sep. 1836 to July 1842; M.G. 23 Nov. 1841; hon. L.G. 1854; F.R.S. 13 Feb. 1845, withdrew 1863; F.R.G.S.; a knight of Persian order of the Lion and Sun; author of Kars and Erzeroum, with the campaigns of Prince Paskiewitch in 1828–9. 1856; translated Capefigue’s The diplomatists of Europe 1845; edited Narrative of the conquest of Finland by the Russians in 1808–9. 1854. d. 11 Upper Wimpole st. London 18 April 1864. Vibart’s Madras sappers, ii 113–31 (1884).
MONTGOMERIE, Alexander (2 son of Alexander Montgomerie of Annick lodge, Ayrshire 1744–1802). b. 30 July 1790; entered navy 27 June 1802; captain 3 Oct. 1820; retired admiral 27 April 1863. d. Bridgend, Skelmorlie, Ayrshire 26 Dec. 1863.
MONTGOMERIE, Sir Patrick (son of Robert Montgomerie of Irvine, Ayrshire, banker). b. Irvine 1793; ed. at Ayr academy and Woolwich; 2 lieut. Madras artillery 7 July 1810, col. commandant 7 Oct. 1849 to death, served in India 1817–25 and in China 1840–1; general 1 March 1867; C.B. 20 July 1838, K.C.B. 28 March 1865. d. 10 Elvaston place, London 5 Oct. 1872.
MONTGOMERIE, Patrick. b. 26 Oct. 1837; 2 lieut. Madras engineers 13 June 1856, lieut.-col. 4 June 1883; assist. engineer Godavery district 1860; executive engineer in central provinces 1864–5; employed in irrigation districts of Tanjore and Trichinopoly 1868; deputy chief engineer and under sec. in public works department at Madras 1873–4 and 1877–9; district engineer of Madras and consulting architect to the government 1876; in charge of first superintending engineers’ circle 1884; investigated the cause of the floods in the Coleroon and Cauvery rivers 1880; made an able report on the tanks maintenance scheme in Madras; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. d. Waltair near Vizagapatam 8 Jany. 1886. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi 368–70 (1886).
MONTGOMERIE, Roger (3 son of Wm. Montgomerie of Annick lodge, Ayrshire 1789–1852). b. Ayr 22 Oct. 1828; ed. at Rugby and St. John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; advocate at Scotch bar 1852; advocate depute 1858, 1868 and 1874; M.P. North Ayrshire 1874–80; deputy lord clerk register of Scotland. d. at his residence near Irvine 25 Oct. 1880. Journal of jurisprudence, xxiv 601.
MONTGOMERIE, Thomas George (brother of the preceding). b. 23 April 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1849, lieut.-col. 1 April 1874, retired with rank of colonel 1876; arrived in India June 1851, posted to the trigonometrical survey 1852; had charge of the trigo-topographical survey of the dominions of the maharajahs of Jamu and Kashmir 1855–64; received founder’s medal of Royal Geographical Society, May 1865; in charge of the Himalayan survey in Kumaon and Gurhwal, May 1867; superintended great trigonometrical survey of India 1870–3 when he returned to England; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; contributed 14 papers to geographical periodicals. d. 66 Pulteney st. Bath 31 Jany. 1878. Athenæum, i 191 (1878).