Reverend Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, KCMG

Henry Hutchinson Montgomery

Henry Hutchinson Montgomery KCMG (3 October 1847, Cawnpore – 25 November 1932) was an Anglican bishop and author in the last part of the 19th century and the very start of the 20th.

Born in 1847 as the son of the colonial administrator Robert Montgomery, he 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 in 1871, Montgomery took curacies at Hurstpierpoint and St. Margaret's, Westminster. While at Westminster he married the Archdeacon of Westminster's daughter (Maud Farrar): one of their five sons was Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery. In 1879 he was appointed Vicar of St Mark's Kennington. From here he was appointed to be Bishop of Tasmania in 1889. 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. Described in his Times obituary as a man "always young in enthusiasm and open vision", he died on 25 November 1932.

Works

* Life's Journey, 1916

   * Life of Bishop Lefroy, 1920

   * Joy of the Lord, 1931

   * Old Age, 1932

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