Henry Montgomery

Henry Hutchinson Montgomery (3 October 184725 November 1932) was an Anglican bishop 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 Inishowen in the north of County Donegal in Ulster. Henry 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 college steps in one bound. Early ministry and marriage Made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1871 (4 June) and ordained a priest the following Trinity Sunday (26 May 1872) — both times by Richard Durnford, Bishop of Chichester, at Chichester Cathedral; 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 Westminster Abbey on 28 July 1881 one of their five sons was Bernard "Monty", who became a field marshal and later 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. On 21 July 1879, he became Vicar 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 Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury; and resigned the See effective 7 November 1901.