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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  Montgomery    
First Name(s)  Robert    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1809    
Death Year  1887    
Entry  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 ot Allahabad, 1839 : transferred to the Panjab : Commissioner of Lahore, 1849 : succeeded Mr. C. G. Mansel {q.v.) as Member of the Panjab Board of Administration, 1851 : Judicial Commissioner, 1853 : disarmed several native regiments at Lahore and Mian Mir on May 13, 1857, on his own responsibility, and sent warning to Multan, Firozpur and Kangra : appointed Chief Commissioner of Oudh, April, 1858 : Lieutenant-Governor of the Panjab, Feb. 1859, to Jan. 1865 : K.C.B., 1859 : G.C.S.I., 1866 : Member of the Council of India, 1868, till his death on Dec. 28, 1887 : the Montgomery Hall at Lahore erected as a memorial to him.     
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