MONTGOMERY, Alexander Barry. Ensign 1 foot 25 Nov. 1824, lieut.-col. 9 March 1855, retired on full pay Jany. 1866; colonel in the army 13 Jany. 1858; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857. d. Stoke, Devonport 17 Oct. 1869.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Alexander Leslie, 3 Baronet (2 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, 1 baronet 1765–1830). b. London 12 March 1807; entered R.N. 7 Oct. 1819; captain 2 July 1846; R.A. 9 Feb. 1864, admiral on h.p. 1 Aug. 1877; an officer of Brazilian order of Southern Cross 1845; succeeded his brother as 3 baronet 24 June 1878. d. 56 Cadogan place, London 13 June 1888.
MONTGOMERY, Fanny Charlotte (2 dau. of George Wyndham, 1 baron Leconfield 1787–1869). b. 30 May 1820; m. 13 Oct. 1842 Alfred 3 son of sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery 1 baronet, he was a commissioner of inland revenue from 1845 to 1882; edited The German Christmas eve, by A. Flohr 1847; authoress of Truth without prejudice 1842; Early influences 1845; Poems 1846; Ashton hall or self seeking and self denying 1846; The Bucklyn shaig 2 vols. 1865; Mine own familiar friend 3 vols. 1872; The wrong man 2 vols. 1873; On the wing, a southern flight 1875; The eternal year 1877, 2 ed. 1889; The maid of Orleans, her life and mission 1891. d. Villa Beatrice, Naples 27 Jany. 1893.
MONTGOMERY, Henry (youngest child of Archibald Montgomery). b. Boltnaconnell house, parish of Killead, co. Antrim 16 Jany. 1788; entered Glasgow college Nov. 1804, M.A. 1807, LL.D. 1833; presbyterian minister of Dunmurry near Belfast 24 Sep. 1809 to death; head master in English school of Belfast academical institution 3 Oct. 1817 to June 1839; moderator of the general synod 30 June 1818; advocated Catholic emancipation from 1813, presented with a service of plate by members of various denominations 18 June 1828; founded the remonstrant synod of Ulster, which first met 25 May 1830; gave lectures to non-subscribing divinity students from 1832; professor of ecclesiastical history and pastoral theology to the association of Irish non-subscribing presbyterians 10 July 1838 to death; an original editor of the Bible Christian 1830; contributed to the Irish Unitarian mag. 1846–7 a series of Outlines of the history of presbyterianism in Ireland; author of Letter to D. O’Connell in vindication of the proceedings of the remonstrant presbyterians of Belfast 1831. d. the glebe, Dunmurry 18 Dec. 1865, his portrait painted 1835 by J. P. Knight was engraved several times. His widow Eliza and his dau. Lily granted civil list pension of £100, 29 Jany. 1866. Life of H. Montgomery. By J. A. Crozier, vol. i (1875), portrait; J. L. Porter’s Life of Henry Cooke (1871) 120, 157 etc.; C. Porter’s Irish presbyterian biographical sketches (1883) 34; Times 21 Dec. 1865 p. 9.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Henry Conyngham, 2 Baronet (eld. brother of sir A. L. Montgomery 1807–1888). b. Taunton 10 June 1803; ed. at Eton and Haileybury; entered Madras civil service 1825; succeeded his father 21 Jany. 1830; collector and magistrate of Tangore 1843; chief secretary to government of Madras 1850–7; member of council Madras 1854–7; resigned the service 29 Oct. 1857; member of council of India 21 Sep. 1858 to Nov. 1876; P.C. 28 Nov. 1876. d. 5 Manchester sq. London 24 June 1878. bur. Kensal Green cemet. 28 June.
MONTGOMERY, James (son of John Montgomery, Moravian minister at Irvine, Ayrshire, d. Barbados 27 June 1791). b. Irvine 4 Nov. 1771; ed. at Moravian school, Fulneck near Leeds 1777–86; clerk in office of Mr. Gales’ Sheffield Register April 1792, became the working editor of the paper 1794; in partnership with Benjamin Naylor purchased Gales’ newspaper business 1794 and brought out the Sheffield Iris 4 July 1794, proprietor of the paper 1795, retired 4 Nov. 1825; wrote for the Eclectic Review; lectured on poetry at Royal Institution 1830 and 1831, these lectures were published 1833; granted civil list pension of £150, 1835; author of Prison amusements 1796; The whisperer, or tales and speculations. By Gabriel Silvertongue, No. 1 May 28, 1795, No. 24 Nov. 5, 1795, he afterward suppressed this volume; his chief poems are The wanderer of Switzerland 1806, 7 ed. 1815; The West Indies 1810, 7 ed. 1828; The world before the flood 1813, 7 ed. 1826; Greenland 1819; The Pelican island 1826, 2 ed. 1828; wrote many hymns which were collected 1853, more than 100 of them are still used; his collected poems were published in 4 vols. 1841, 9 ed. 1881. d. The Mount, Sheffield 30 April 1854. bur. Sheffield cemetery 10 May, where is monument by John Bell, full-length portrait by Barber in Sheffield literary and philosophical institute. J. Holland and J. Everett’s Life of James Montgomery 7 vols. (1854–6), four portraits; J. W. King’s J. Montgomery (1858), portrait; S. C. Hall’s Book of memories (1883) 81–93; Papers of the Manchester literary club (1889) 385–92, 435–40; Samuel Ellis’s Life, times and character of James Montgomery (1864); W. Howitt’s Home and haunts, ii 292–322 (1847), 3 ed. (1857) 556–77; Pen and ink sketches 2 ed. (1847) 209–21; I.L.N. xxiv 417–18, 551 (1854) portrait, xxvii 436 (1855); The living poets of England (Paris 1827) i 476–522; J. A. Langford’s Prison books (1861) 287–315; G. Gilfillan’s A second gallery of literary portraits (1850) 313–23; Chambers’s Biog. dict. of eminent Scotsmen, iii 161–64 (1870), portrait.
MONTGOMERY, John James (eldest son of John Montgomery). b. Ballymore, co. Westmeath 1832; ed. at Queen’s coll. Belfast and Queen’s coll. Cork; served under C. B. Lane, C.E. London; private sec. to sir G. Airy at Greenwich observatory; chief assistant to borough engineer Bradford to 1861; borough engineer of Belfast 1861 to death; designed and carried out a scheme of drainage for the borough; diverted the river Blackstaff 1878; M.I.C.E. 7 Feb. 1871; fell ill when travelling in Switzerland, d. Airolo, Aug. 1884. bur. protestant cemetery, Lucerne. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxviii 436–9 (1884).
MONTGOMERY, Robert (natural son of Robt. Gomery, clown at Bath theatre, d. 14 June 1853). b. Bath 1807; ed. at Dr. Arnot’s school, Bath; took the name of Montgomery; founded a weekly paper at Bath called The Inspector about 1824; matric. from Lincoln coll. Oxf. 18 Feb. 1830, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1838; ordained at St. Asaph 3 May 1835; C. of Whittington, Shropshire 1835–6; minister of St. Jude’s, Glasgow 1836–43; minister of Percy chapel, St. Pancras, London, Oct. 1843 to death; author of the following poems, The stage coach 1827; The age reviewed, a satire 1827; The omnipresence of the deity 1828, which ran to 8 editions in 8 months, 28 ed. 1855; The Puffiad 1830, a satire; Satan, a poem 1830, 8 ed. 1842; Oxford 1831, 6 ed. 1843; The Messiah 1832, 8 ed. 1842; Woman, the angel of life 1833, 5 ed. 1841; The poetical works of R. Montgomery 3 vols. 1839, 2 ed. 1853. d. Brighton 3 Dec. 1855. R. H. Horne’s New spirit of the age, ii 233–52 (1844); Pen and ink sketches 2 ed. (1847) 209–21; S. T. Hall’s Biographical Sketches (1873) 142–54.
Note.—He was called by the critics Satan Montgomery from his poem entitled Satan and to distinguish him from James Montgomery the poet; he is immortalised in Montgomery, a poem in the Bon Gaultier Ballads (1853) 159–61.
MONTGOMERY, Sir Robert (2 son of Samuel Law Montgomery, rector of Lower Morville, co. Donegal). b. Londonderry 1809; entered Bengal civil service 1827; magistrate and collector at Allahabad, June 1839; comr. of the Lahore division of the Punjab 1849, member of the board of administration 1852–3, judicial comr. 1853; disarmed the Bengal sepoys at Lahore on outbreak of the mutiny 13 May 1857; chief comr. of Oudh, June 1858, where he enforced the confiscation proclamation; lieut. governor of the Punjab, March 1859 to Feb. 1865; K.C.B. 19 May 1859; G.C.S.I. 20 Feb. 1866; member of council of secretary of state for India 1868 to death; known in India as Pickwick for his benevolence; author of Abstract principles of laws circulated for the guidance of officers employed in administration of civil justice in the Punjab. Bangalore 1864. d. 7 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 28 Dec. 1887. bur. family vault Londonderry 3 Jany. 1888. Illust. news of the world, iii 228 (1859), portrait.