Modern English biography

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_. MONTGOMERY, WALTER, stage name of Richard Tomlinson (10 son of Wm. Tomlinson). _b._ Gawennis, Long Island, U.S. of America 25 Aug. 1827; a buyer in the shawl department for Messrs. Shoolbred 1852; played Othello as an amateur at Soho theatre 1852 under name of Young Emery; played at Bath, Bristol, Birmingham, Norwich and Yarmouth; manager of the new Nottingham theatre; first appeared in London at Princess’s 20 June 1863 as Othello; manager of the Princess’s, played Shylock 22 Aug. 1863; gave readings from Shakespeare &c. at St. James’s hall, London, March 1864; played Leonatus Posthumus 6 March and Cassius April 1865, both at Drury Lane; manager of Haymarket July 1865 to Nov. 1865, where he played Hamlet, Claude Melnotte, King John, Shylock and Iago; the original Lorenzo in W. C. Russell’s tragedy Fra Angelo; played Orlando and Sir Thomas Clifford at Drury Lane, Nov. 1866; played Hamlet at Gaiety theatre 31 July 1871, also Sir Giles Overreach, Louis XI. and Meg Merrilies; _m._ 30 Aug. 1871 Miss Laleah Burpee Bigelow an American; _shot himself_ at 2 Stafford st. Bond st. London 1 Sep. 1871. _bur._ Brompton cemet. 5 Sep. Winnetta Montague widow of Walter Montgomery. _d._ Brooklyn, New York 27 May 1877. _Illust. sporting news_, _v_ 769 (1866), _portrait_; _The Theatre_, _ii_ 12 (1883); _The Era 3 Sep. 1871 p._ 13, _10 Sep. p._ 11, _17 June 1877 p._ 4. NOTE.--Was Hamlet mad? or the lucubrations of Messrs. Smith, Brown, Jones and Robinson. Melbourne 1867; another ed. Was Hamlet mad? By Archibald Ritchie and others, edited by R. H. Horne. London 1871, a pamphlet on Montgomery’s acting in Australia in 1867. MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM FETHERSTON. _b._ 1797; ed. Trin. coll. Dublin 1817, scholar; L.R.C.P. Ireland 1825, F.R.C.P. 1829, president of the college, professor of midwifery there 30 years; collected the Obstetrical museum in the College of physicians, Dublin, since removed to Queen’s college, Galway; a great authority on midwifery in Ireland and on the Continent; author of An exposition of the signs of pregnancy 1837, 2 ed. 1856, and with F. Barker Observations on the Dublin pharmacopæia 1830. _d._ 8 Merrion square north, Dublin 21 Dec. 1859. _Dublin Quart. Journal Medical Science_, _xxxiii_ 250 (1862); _Medical Times_, _xl_ 664 (1859). MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM HENRY. Studied under W. M. Rooke and W. Shield; member of Royal soc. of musicians; musical director at Sadler’s Wells theatre 1844–60, at Covent Garden 1864, at the Strand 1861 etc., and at the Lyceum 1865 etc.; composed and printed in The Musical Boquet 110 pieces 1846 etc.; wrote the music of the ballads in The ring and the keeper 1862; contributed to the Alliance Musicale 1877 and to the Victoria music book 1878; composer of Oh! ask me not to love again, ballad 1845; Song of the haymakers 1847; The youthful harmonist 1852, twenty numbers; Oh! had I but Aladdin’s lamp, song 1852; The sacred harmonist, airs as solo for the piano 1852, twenty numbers; The reaper and the flowers 1856; Montgomery’s Bouquet of dance music for a septett band 1856; The silver lake varsoviana 1856; Montgomery’s One hundred and thirty Christy minstrel songs arranged for the violin 1860; Moore’s Irish melodies arranged 1860–1 three sets; Montgomery’s 120 Dances for the cornet, flute and violin 1860, three series; Montgomery’s Orchestral journal of dance music 1861, twenty five numbers; Bertha’s wedding, an operatic sketch, words by J. P. Wooler 1863; The violinist’s album 1876, twenty four numbers; Metzler’s Twenty three duets, songs and waltzes arranged 1877, three series; his name is attached to above 400 pieces of music, and he also wrote the music for about 50 pantomimes. _d._ Waterloo road, London 12 Sep. 1886. _bur._ Norwood cemet. MONTI, RAFFAELLE (son of Gaetano Monti of Ravenna, sculptor). _b._ Milan 1818; studied under his father in the imperial academy, Milan, took gold medal for group of Alexander taming Bucephalus; exhibited Ajax defending body of Patroclus 1838; sculptor in Vienna 1838–42, in Milan 1842–6; in England 1846 exhibited The veiled statue, executed for the duke of Devonshire; joined the national party in Italy 1847, fled to England 1848; his chief works in England were The sister angels, The veiled vestal, Eve after the fall, and The sleep of sorrow, the dream of joy exhibited at the International exhibition of 1862; his models of Italy, Truth, Eve, two emblematical fountains and six colossal symbolical figures are at the Crystal palace, Sydenham. _d._ London 16 Oct. 1881. _Art Journal_, _Nov. 1881 p._ 352. MONTRESOR, FREDERICK BYNG. Entered navy 27 June 1823; captain 29 April 1851; R.A. 20 March 1867, retired 1 April 1870, retired admiral 26 Sep. 1878. _d._ 15 Dec. 1887. MONTRESOR, SIR THOMAS GAGE (3 son of John Montresor of Belmont, Kent, his majesty’s chief engineer of America). _b._ New York 4 March 1774; ensign 18 foot 13 Oct. 1789; D.A.Q.M.G. in Flanders 1794; brigade major in Ireland during French invasion 1799; in Egypt 1801, in India 1803; lieut.-col. 22 dragoons 2 Jany. 1812 to 1816; commanded the troops of the Paishwa at Poonah 1809–13; colonel of 2 dragoon guards 20 Feb. 1837 to death; knighted at St. James’s palace 21 Feb. 1834; general 23 Nov. 1841; K.C.H.