Lane_, _ii_ 258–61 (1881); _Saturday Programme 30 Aug. 1876 p._
5, _portrait_; _Illust. sp. and dr. news_, _ix_ 555, 596 (1878)
_portrait_, _x_ 6 (1878) _portrait_; _Theatre_, _ii_ 208 (1878).
MONTALBA, HENRIETTA SKERRETT (youngest dau. of Anthony Rubens
Montalba). _b._ 63 Oakley st. St. Pancras, London 1856; studied
sculpture at South Kensington and in the school of the Belle
Arti at Venice; pupil of Jules Dalou, French sculptor in London;
the greater part of her work was executed in terra-cotta;
exhibited portraits and fancy busts at the R.A., Grosvenor
gallery, New gallery and elsewhere; her last work a lifesize
figure of A Venetian boy catching a crab was exhibited at the
R.A. 1893 and at International exhibition Chicago same year;
resided latterly at Venice. _d._ the Palazzo Trevisazz, Zattere,
Venice 14 Sep. 1893. _bur._ near her father in cemetery of St.
Michele; the Princess Louise painted her portrait and presented
it to the academy of Ottawa in Canada. _Art Journal_, _July
1894 pp._ 215–7, _portrait_; _Graphic 28 Oct. 1893 p._ 530,
_portrait_; _Queen 7 Oct. 1893_.
MONTALEMBERT, CHARLES FORBES RENÉ, Count de (son of Marc René
Anne Marie de Montalembert an émigré and an officer in India,
_d._ 21 June 1831, _m._ 1808 Eliza dau. of James Forbes of
H.E.I.C.) _b._ Upper Brook st. London 15 May 1810; lived with
James Forbes to 1 Aug. 1819, who then at his death left him
everything; visited Ireland 1830; helped the abbé La Mennais
to found l’Avenir 18 Oct. 1830; succeeded his father as a peer
of France 21 June 1831; chief of the R.C. party in the chamber
1836; representative for Doubs in the National assembly 1848;
condemned to fine and imprisonment for publishing Un debat sur
l’Inde au parlement Anglais 24 Nov. 1858, but sentence rescinded
21 Dec; visited England 1855, 1858 and 1862; author of A letter
to a member of the Camden society on Catholic literary societies
on the architectural, artistical and archæological movements
of the Puseyites 1844; De l’ avenir politique de l’ Angleterre
1856; Pius IX. and lord Palmerston 1856; The monks of the west
from St. Benedict to St. Bernard 7 vols. 1861–79; The conversion
of England, a sequel to The monks of the west 3 vols. 1867;
St. Columba, apostle of Caledonia 1868; The insurrection in
Poland 1863; Count de Montalembert’s Letter to a school-fellow
1874 and 40 other works. _d._ Paris 13 March 1870. _Mrs.
Oliphant’s Memoir of Count de Montalembert_ 2 _vols._ (1872);
_English Cyclopædia_, _iv_ 307 (1857), _Supplement 1872 p._ 902;
_Larousse’s Grand Dictionnaire_, _xi_ 484, 485 (1874).
MONTEAGLE, THOMAS SPRING-RICE, 1 Baron (elder son of Stephen
Edward Rice of Mount Trenchard near Limerick _d._ Sep. 1831).
_b._ Limerick 8 Feb. 1790; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., M.A. 1833;
studied for the bar; M.P. Limerick 1820–32; M.P. Cambridge
1832–9; under sec. of state for home department 16 July 1827
to 5 April 1828; sec. of treasury 26 Nov. 1830 to 6 June 1834;
sec. of state for the colonies 5 June 1834 to 18 April 1835;
P.C. 5 June 1834; chancellor of the exchequer 18 April 1835
to 26 Aug. 1839; comptroller general of exchequer 9 Sep. 1839
to 1865; created baron Monteagle of Brandon, co. Kerry 5 Sep.
1839; F.R.S. 29 April 1841; fellow of univ. of London 1850 to
death; author of Letter to the archbishop of Dublin on the
ecclesiastical titles act 1851. _d._ Mount Trenchard near
Limerick 7 Feb. 1866.
MONTEATH, ALEXANDER M. Ed. at Edinburgh academy and univ.,
and at Haileybury college; entered Bengal civil service 1857;
assistant magistrate and collector at Allahabad 1858; under
secretary to government of India, financial and home departments
1861–7; director-general of the post office of India 1867,
retired 1881; represented India at the postal conference at
Berne 1876. _d._ Broich near Crieff, Perthshire 23 April 1893.
MONTEATH-DOUGLAS, SIR THOMAS (son of Thomas Monteath). _b._
1787; entered Bengal army 1805; ensign 17 Bengal N.I. 4
Dec. 1806, lieut. 9 Sep. 1808; captain 35 N.I. 1 May 1824,
lieut.-col. 2 April 1834 to 3 Nov. 1843; commanded his regiment
in Afghan war 1838–9 and a brigade in Afghan war 1842; A.D.C.
to the queen 4 Oct. 1842 to 1854; lieut.-col. of 15 N.I. 3 Nov.
1843 to 30 Sep. 1845; col. of 68 N.I. 30 Sep. 1845 to 1846 and
of 35 N.I. 1846 to death; commandant at Umballa 10 March 1846 to
10 Jany. 1851; general 9 April 1865; C.B. 29 Dec. 1839, K.C.B.
28 March 1865; took additional name of Douglas by r.l. 18 Dec.