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 1791 : commanded the Artillery at Nandidrug and Savandrug : Lt-Colonel, 1794 : commanded the Bengal Artillery at Seringapatam, 1799 : shot, and died of his wounds. May 8, 1799.

MONTE ATH, SIR JAMES (1847–)

I.C.S. : born Sep. 7, 1847 : son of Thomas Monteath : educated at Royal Academical Institution and Queen's College, Belfast : entered the Bombay Civil Service, 1870 : held a succession of appointments in the Secretariat : was Private Secretary to the Governor, 1886 : and finally became Chief Secretary to the Bombay Government: C.S.I., 1897 : Member of Council, Bombay, 1900 : K.C.S.I., 1903.

MONTEITH, WILLIAM (1790–1864)

Son of WiUiam Monteith : born June 22, 1790 : became a Lieutenant in the Madras Engineers, 1809 : with Sir J. Malcolm's Embassy to Persia, 1810 : saw service, with the Persians, against the Russians, 1810–3 : with the Persians in the war against Turkey: and settled the Persia-Turkey boundary in 1821 : in the Perso-Russian operations, 1826–8: and at the settlement of the Russo-Persian boundary, 1829, when he left Persia : Chief Engineer at Madras, 1832–4, and 1836–42 : Maj-General, 1842 : Lt-General, 1854 : died April 16, 1864 : F.R.S. and F.R.G.S : wrote on geography, and an account of the campaign of 1826–8.

MONTGOMERIE, SIR PATRICK (1793–1872)

General : son of Robert Montgomerie : educated at the Ayr Academy and Woolwich : joined the Madras Artillery, 1810 : served in the Mahratta war, 1817–8 : at the battle of Nagpur Dec. 16, 1817, and siege of Chanda : in the Burmese war of 1824–5 : commanded the Artillery in China, 1840–2 : A.D.C. to Queen Victoria : Lt-General in 1859 : General in 1868 : Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery : C.B., 1847 : K.C.B., 1865 : died Oct. 5, 1872.

MONTGOMERIE, THOMAS GEORGE (1830–1878)

Born April 23, 1830 : son of Colonel W. E. Montgomerie : educated at Addiscombe : went to India in the Bengal Engineers, 1851 : joined the Trigonometrical Survey in 1582 : took a leading part in the measurement of the base lines of Chach and Karachi : had charge of the topographical survey of Jammu and Kashmir, 1855–64, for which he received the Royal Geographical Society's medal : surveyed 77,000 sq. m. in 9 years : in charge of the Kumaon and Garhwal survey, 1867 : he trained intelligent natives to survey and map, and sent them, disguised as merchants or otherwise, across the frontier, thus acquiring information of great value of the geography and routes to Yarkand, from Nipal to Lhasa, of the upper valley and source of the Brahmaputra, in Badakshan, Kafiristan, etc., for 4,500 miles of route survey : himself working out the results of their observations : officiated as Superintendent of the G. T. Survey, 1870–2 : F.R.S., 1872 : British Commissioner at the Paris Geographical Congress, 1875 : retired as Colonel, 1876 : contributed many papers on geography, surveys and glaciers, to scientific Journals : died Jan. 31, 1878.

MONTGOMERY, SIR HENRY CONYNGHAM, BARONET (1803–1878)

I.C.S. : eldest son of Sir H. C. Montgomery, Bart. : educated at Eton and Haileybury : was Assistant Private Secretary to Lord Wellesley when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1822–4 : finally left Haileybury, 1824 : out to Madras, 1825, in the Civil Service : succeeded to the Baronetcy, 1830 : sent on a special commission to the Rajamundry (Godavery) district, which led to the irrigation of that district from the Godavery : Secretary to the Madras Government in the Revenue and Public Works Department, 1845–50 : Chief Secretary, 1850–5 : Member of Council 1855–7, when he retired : one of the original members of the new Council of India, chosen by the Crown, in Sep. 1858 : retired, 1876 : Privy Councillor : died June 24, 1878.

MONTGOMERY, SIR ROBERT (1809–1887)

I.C.S. : son of the Rev. Samuel Law Montgomery : born 1809 : educated at Foyle College, Londonderry; Wraxall Hall and Addiscombe, 1823–5 : entered the Bengal Civil Service, 1828 : served in the N.W.P. : Magistrate-Collector of