Henry Montgomery (bishop)

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Henry Montgomery
Bishop of Tasmania
1889 photograph of Montgomery as bishop
DioceseAnglican Diocese of Tasmania
In office1889–1901
PredecessorDaniel Sandford
SuccessorEdward Mercer
Orders
Ordination1871 (deacon); 1872 (priest)
by Richard Durnford
Consecration1 May 1889
by Edward White Benson
Personal details
Born(1847-10-03)3 October 1847
Cawnpore, North-Western Provinces, India
Died25 November 1932(1932-11-25) (aged 85)
Moville, County Donegal, Ulster, Ireland
NationalityBritish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsSir Robert Montgomery
SpouseMaud Farrar
Childrenfive, including Bernard "Monty"
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge

Henry Hutchinson Montgomery (3 October 1847 – 25 November 1932) was an Anglican bishop and author.

Family and education[edit]

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 Inishowen in the north of County Donegal in Ulster. Henry 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 college steps in one bound.[2]

Early ministry and marriage[edit]

Made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1871 (4 June)[3] and ordained a priest the following Trinity Sunday (26 May 1872) — both times by Richard Durnford, Bishop of Chichester, at Chichester Cathedral;[4] Montgomery took curacies at Hurstpierpoint and St. Margaret's, Westminster.[5] 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,[6] at Westminster Abbey on 28 July 1881[7] one of their five sons was Bernard "Monty", who became a field marshal and later 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.[8]

On 21 July 1879,[7] he became Vicar of St Mark's Kennington.[9] From here he was appointed to be Bishop of Tasmania in 1889,[10] where he nearly doubled the number of churches in the diocese.[11] He was consecrated a bishop at Westminster Abbey on 1 May 1889 by Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury; and resigned the See effective 7 November 1901.[7]

After India[edit]

In 1901 he was recalled to Britain to be secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). Arthur Winnington-Ingram, Bishop of London, appointed him to the prebendal stall of Wenlocksbarn in St Paul's Cathedral 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.[12] In 1905 he was appointed Prelate of the Order of St Michael and St George;[13] and was raised to the rank of Knight Commander (KCMG) in the 1928 King's Birthday Honours.[14]

In 1887 he inherited New Park, his father's country house and estate, at Moville in Inishowen, County Donegal.[15] Described in his Times obituary as a man "always young in enthusiasm and open vision",[16] he died at home on 25 November 1932[7] 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[edit]

Notes[edit]

  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. ^ "Ordinations on Sunday last". Church Times. No. 436. 9 June 1871. p. 260. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 2 February 2023 – via UK Press Online archives.
  4. ^ "Ordinations on Trinity Sunday". Church Times. No. 487. 31 May 1872. p. 251. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 2 February 2023 – via UK Press Online archives.
  5. ^ Malden Richard (ed) (1920). Crockford's Clerical Directory for 1920 (51st edn). London: The Field Press. p. 1048.
  6. ^ Montgomery, Bernard. Memoirs. p. 20.
  7. ^ a b c d "Montgomery, Henry Hutchinson" in Blain, Michael. Blain Biographical Directory of Anglican clergy in the South Pacific — ordained before 1932 (2023 edition) p. 1402 (Accessed at Project Canterbury, 4 February 2023; archived, 4 February 2023)
  8. ^ Full Monty, vol.1: Montgomery of Alamein, 1887-1942, Hamilton, N: London,Allen Lane, 2001 ISBN 0-7139-9334-0
  9. ^ "Church web site". Archived from the original on 28 August 2008. Retrieved 14 June 2008.
  10. ^ Who was Who 1987-1990: London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
  11. ^ "Sons and Daughters of Donegal" (PDF). Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  12. ^ "Ecclesiastical intelligence". The Times. No. 36891. London. 6 October 1902. p. 5.
  13. ^ "No. 27772". The London Gazette. 7 March 1905. p. 1843.
  14. ^ "No. 33390". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 June 1928. p. 3849.
  15. ^ "Family of Field Marshall Montgomery Moville Inishowen Co Donegal". Archived from the original on 25 March 2012. Retrieved 7 June 2011.
  16. ^ Monday, 28 Nov 1932; pg. 19; Issue 46302; col A "Bishop Montgomery An Active Life For The Church'", The Times.

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