Name Montagu Ommanney | ||
Captain Sir Montagu Frederick Ommanney, (1842-1925) was a British civil servant and Head of the Colonial Office 1900-1907.
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Biography
Ommanney was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, from which he retired as a captain in 1878.
He was Private Secretary to the Earl of Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, from 1874-1878, and later served as a Crown Agent for the Colonies. In 1900 he was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and thus head of the Colonial Office. He resigned in 1907.
He was a Director of the North Borneo Company.
Honours
Ommanney was knighted as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in the New Year Honours list 1890, and was promoted to a Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) of the order in the 1904 Birthday Honours list. He later served as a King of Arms of the Order of St Michael and St George 1909-1924. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1901 Birthday Honours list, and invested as such by King Edward VII at St James's Palace on 17 December 1901. He received the Imperial Service Order (ISO) in 1903.
Family
He married, in 1866, Charlotte Helen Ommanney, daughter of his relative O. Ommanney, Esq.