Modern English biography

Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. _d._ Futtyghur, Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at Futtyghur. _Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain_, _edited by Mrs. A. S. H. Mountain_ (1857) _portrait_. MOUNTAIN, GEORGE JEHOSHAPHAT (brother of the preceding). _b._ Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R. of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817; archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb. 1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until 1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in 1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college, Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission 1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. _d._ Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany.