Name Henry Montgomery Role Author | Parents Robert Montgomery | |
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Died November 25, 1932, Moville, Republic of Ireland Children Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Books Francis Balfour of Basutoland: Evangelist and Bishop Grandchildren David Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Montgomery of Alamein Education Trinity College, Cambridge, Harrow School | ||
The Rt Rev. Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, KCMG (3 October 1847, Cawnpore – 25 November 1932, Moville), was an Anglican bishop and author in the last part of the 19th century and the very start of the 20th.
He was born in 1847 at Cawnpore, India, the second son of the colonial administrator Robert Montgomery, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab. The Montgomerys were an Ulster-Scots gentry family from Inishowen in the north of County Donegal in Ulster. Henry was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. Writing on 16 March 1944, G. M. Trevelyan observed that Montgomery was one of the few people ever to have jumped up the steps of the College steps in one bound.
Ordained a deacon in 1871 and made a priest in 1872, Montgomery took curacies at Hurstpierpoint and St. Margaret's, Westminster. While at Westminster he married the Archdeacon's daughter (Maud Farrar, daughter of Frederic William Farrar): one of their five sons was Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. In 1879 he was appointed Vicar of St Mark's Kennington. From here he was appointed to be Lord Bishop of Tasmania in 1889. As Bishop of Tasmania he nearly doubled the number of churches in the diocese.
In 1901 he was recalled to be Secretary of the SPG. In 1905 he was also appointed Prelate of the Order of St Michael and St George; and was raised to the rank of Knight Commander in the 1928 King's Birthday Honours.
In 1887 he inherited New Park, his father's country house and estate, at Moville in Inishowen, County Donegal. Described in his Times obituary as a man "always young in enthusiasm and open vision", he died on 25 November 1932 and was buried in Moville churchyard.
He was a great-grandfather of Charles Montgomery, and father of Field Marshal The 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein