Modern English biography

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.