Henry Montgomery (bishop)

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.

Born in 1847 at Cawnpore, India, the second son of the colonial administrator Robert Montgomery, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab, he was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[1] 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.[2]

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 Bernard Law Montgomery.[3] In 1879 he was appointed Vicar of St Mark's Kennington.[4] From here he was appointed to be Bishop of Tasmania in 1889.[5] As Bishop of Tasmania he nearly doubled the number of churches in the diocese.[6]

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;[7] and was raised to the rank of Knight Commander in the 1928 King's Birthday Honours.[8]

In 1887 he inherited his father's estate at Moville in County Donegal.[9] Described in his Times obituary as a man "always young in enthusiasm and open vision",[10] he died on 25 November 1932[11] and was buried in Moville churchyard.

He was a great-grandfather of Charles Montgomery, and father of Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Montgomery, Henry Hutchinson (MNTY866HH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ↑ Gregory. K. (ed.) The First Cuckoo: letters to The Times, 1900-1980, London, George Allen & Unwin, 1981, p 179. ISBN 0-04-808031-4.
  3. ↑ Full Monty, vol.1: Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1942, Hamilton, N: London,Allen Lane, 2001 ISBN 0-7139-9334-0
  4. ↑ Church web site
  5. ↑ Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  6. ↑ "Sons and Daughters of Donegal" (PDF). Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  7. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27772. p. 1843. 7 March 1905. Retrieved 23 June 2009.
  8. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 33390. p. 3849. 1 June 1928. Retrieved 23 June 2009.
  9. ↑ http://www.movilleinishowen.com/history/moville_heritage/moville_heritage_htm/family_field_marshall_montgomery.htm
  10. ↑ Monday, 28 Nov 1932; pg. 19; Issue 46302; col A "Bishop Montgomery An Active Life For The Church'", The Times.
  11. ↑ Venn has the date of death as 26 November.

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Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by
Daniel Fox Sandford		 Bishop of Tasmania
1889–1901 		Succeeded by
John Edward Mercer
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