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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Montgomerie    
First Name(s)  Thomas George    
Birth Year  1830    
Death Year  1878    
Entry  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.     
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