MONTGOMERIE, PATRICK. _b._ 26 Oct. 1837; 2 lieut. Madras
engineers 13 June 1856, lieut.-col. 4 June 1883; assist.
engineer Godavery district 1860; executive engineer in central
provinces 1864–5; employed in irrigation districts of Tanjore
and Trichinopoly 1868; deputy chief engineer and under sec. in
public works department at Madras 1873–4 and 1877–9; district
engineer of Madras and consulting architect to the government
1876; in charge of first superintending engineers’ circle 1884;
investigated the cause of the floods in the Coleroon and Cauvery
rivers 1880; made an able report on the tanks maintenance scheme
in Madras; A.I.C.E. 5 May 1868. _d._ Waltair near Vizagapatam
8 Jany. 1886. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxxxvi_ 368–70
(1886).
MONTGOMERIE, ROGER (3 son of Wm. Montgomerie of Annick lodge,
Ayrshire 1789–1852). _b._ Ayr 22 Oct. 1828; ed. at Rugby and St.
John’s coll. Camb., B.A. 1851, M.A. 1854; advocate at Scotch bar
1852; advocate depute 1858, 1868 and 1874; M.P. North Ayrshire
1874–80; deputy lord clerk register of Scotland. _d._ at his
residence near Irvine 25 Oct. 1880. _Journal of jurisprudence_,
_xxiv_ 601.
MONTGOMERIE, THOMAS GEORGE (brother of the preceding). _b._ 23
April 1830; 2 lieut. Bengal engineers 9 June 1849, lieut.-col.
1 April 1874, retired with rank of colonel 1876; arrived in
India June 1851, posted to the trigonometrical survey 1852; had
charge of the trigo-topographical survey of the dominions of
the maharajahs of Jamu and Kashmir 1855–64; received founder’s
medal of Royal Geographical Society, May 1865; in charge of the
Himalayan survey in Kumaon and Gurhwal, May 1867; superintended
great trigonometrical survey of India 1870–3 when he returned
to England; F.R.S. 6 June 1872; contributed 14 papers to
geographical periodicals. _d._ 66 Pulteney st. Bath 31 Jany.