Henry Montgomery (Bishop)

Henry Hutchinson Montgomery (born September 3 or October 3, 1847 in Cawnpore , British India , † November 25, 1932 in Moville , Ireland ) was a British Anglican clergyman and Bishop of Tasmania .

Life

Origin and early years

Henry Montgomery was the eldest son of Sir Robert Montgomery , lieutenant governor of Punjab , and his wife, Ellen Jane, née Lambert. Montgomery attended Harrow School , where he excelled as an athlete. He studied at Trinity College , Cambridge , where he obtained a bachelor's degree in 1870 , a master's degree in 1873 and was awarded a doctorate in theology in 1889 .

Church career

His apprenticeship training was provided by Charles Vaughan , who had been his headmaster at Harrow. In 1871 he became a deacon in Chichester and in 1872 the priest of the Church of England ordained . He then worked from 1871 as a pastor in Hurstpierpoint , Sussex. In 1874 he went to Christ Church in Southwark and in 1876 to St Margaret’s Church in Westminster , and in 1879 to St Mark’s in Kennington .

In 1889, Montgomery was elected the fourth Anglican Bishop of Tasmania. Immediately upon his arrival in Tasmania, he had the cathedral completed, regardless of complaints from rural parishes. He undertook pastoral trips to distant mining settlements on the west coast of the island and showed great concern for the concerns of the indigenous Tasmanians , although he was unable to counteract the genocide of the indigenous population. In Hobart and Launceston he supported pastoral work with the disadvantaged; he promoted pastoral care for immigrant Chinese. He also founded a hospital for prostitutes and unmarried mothers. In 1892 he advocated the establishment of an Anglican diocese for New Guinea and in 1896, after a visit to the diocese of Melanesia, wrote a seminal essay on missionary strategies. In his own diocese, Bishop Montgomery has been harshly attacked by evangelicals for his high ecclesiastical views on worship, confession, and intercession for the deceased . During his tenure as Bishop of Tasmania, the membership of his diocese grew from 81,000 to nearly 88,000 and the number of buildings rose from 75 to 125.

In June 1901 he became episcopal secretary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and took up this position in January of the following year. In 1905 he was appointed Prelate of the Order of St Michael and St George and in 1928 knighted as Knight Commander of the same order. He retired in 1919 and from 1921 lived on the New Park family estate in Moville, County Donegal , Ireland , which his father had left him in 1887. He died there on November 25, 1932, leaving behind his wife, five sons and two daughters.

Private life

Montgomery married 16-year-old Maud Farrar, daughter of the canon of Westminster Frederic William Farrar , in Westminster Abbey on July 28, 1881 . He had nine children with her, including the future Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery .

Works

Montgomery published a large number of articles and books, the variety of topics ranging from the protection of petrels to biographies of outstanding church personalities to reflections on the missionary work and the future of the church.

• Foreign Missions.
• Four Months in the East.
• Francis Balfour of Basutoland: Evangelist and Bishop.
• Life's Journey.
• The History of Kennington and its Neighborhood: With chapters on cricket past and present.
• The Life and Letters of George Alfred Lefroy DD, Bishop of Calcutta, and Metropolitan.
• The light of Melanesia. 1896.

literature

• GH Stephens: Montgomery, Henry Hutchinson . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Volume 10. Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1986, ISBN 0-522-84327-1 (English).

Web links

• Rt. Rev. Henry Hutchinson Montgomery on thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 27772, HMSO, London, March 7, 1905, p. 1843 ( PDF , English).
2. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 33390, HMSO, London, June 1, 1928, p. 3849 ( PDF , English).