Henry Hutchinson Montgomery (3 October 184725 November 1932) was an

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and author.

Family and education

He was born in 1847 at Cawnpore, India, the second son of the colonial administrator Robert Montgomery, a future Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab. The Montgomerys were an Ulster-Scots gentry family from

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in the north of

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. Henry was educated at

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and

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claimed that Montgomery was one of the few people ever to have jumped up the college steps in one bound.

Early ministry and marriage

Made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1871 (4 June) and

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a priest the following Trinity Sunday (26 May 1872) — both times by Richard Durnford,

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, at

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; Montgomery took curacies at Hurstpierpoint and St. Margaret's, Westminster. The Archdeacon at Westminster was Frederic William Farrar. Montgomery became engaged to Farrar's daughter Maud when she was 14 and they married two years later, at

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on 28 July 1881"Montgomery, Henry Hutchinson" in Blain, Michael. ''Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932'' (2023 edition) p. 1402 (Accessed a
Project Canterbury
4 February 2023
archived
4 February 2023) one of their five sons was Bernard "Monty", who became a

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and later 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. On 21 July 1879, he became

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of St Mark's Kennington. From here he was appointed to be Bishop of Tasmania in 1889, where he nearly doubled the number of churches in the diocese. He was consecrated a bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 May 1889 by

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. After 12 years, he resigned the See effective 7 November 1901.

After India

In 1901 he was recalled to Britain to be secretary of the

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(SPG). Arthur Winnington-Ingram,

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, appointed him to the prebendal stall of Wenlocksbarn in

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in October 1902. Appointments to the prebendal stalls of St Paul's gave voting rights in the Great Chapter of the church and carried an income, but was otherwise an honorary position. In 1905 he was appointed

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of the

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; and was raised to the rank of

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(KCMG) in the 1928 King's Birthday Honours. In 1887 he inherited New Park, his father's

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and estate, at Moville in

. Described in his '' Times'' obituary as a man "always young in enthusiasm and open vision",Monday, 28 Nov 1932; pg. 19; Issue 46302; col A "Bishop Montgomery An Active Life For The Church'", ''

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''. he died at home on 25 November 1932 and was buried in Moville churchyard. As mentioned above, he was father of the World War II leader "Monty". Other descendants include Canadian author Charles Montgomery, who wrote a 2004 travel memoir in the steps of his great-grandfather, '' The Last Heathen: Encounters with Ghosts and Ancestors in Melanesia''.

Works

''Mankind and the Church: Being an Attempt to Estimate the Contribution of Great Races to the Fulness of the Church of God''
1907 *''Life's Journey'', 1916 *''Life of Bishop Lefroy'', 1920 *Project Canterbury, Charles John Corfe, Naval Chaplain - Bishop, 1927 *''Joy of the Lord'', 1931 *''Old Age'', 1932

Notes

External links

Photograph of MontgomeryHis papers held at Lambeth Palace Library
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