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JAMES MONTGOMERY (1771-1854)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:MONTGOMERY (1771-1854)  , See also:British poet and journalist, son of a Moravian See also:minister, was See also:born on the 4th of See also:November 1771, at See also:Irvine in See also:Ayrshire, See also:Scotland . See also:Part of his boyhood was spent in See also:Ireland, but he received his See also:education in See also:Yorkshire, at the Moravian school of Fulneek near See also:Leeds . He edited the See also:Sheffield See also:Iris for more than See also:thirty years . When he began his career the position of a journalist who held pronounced views on reform was a difficult one, and he twice suffered imprisonment (in 1795 and 1796) . His Wanderer of See also:Switzerland (18o6), describing the See also:French occupation, attracted considerable See also:attention . The author was described by See also:Lord See also:Byron in a footnote to See also:English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, as " a See also:man of considerable See also:genius," whose Wanderer of Switzer-See also:land was See also:worth a thousand " Lyrical See also:Ballads." The See also:book had been mercilessly ridiculed by See also:Jeffrey in the See also:Edinburgh See also:Review (1807), but in spite of this See also:Montgomery achieved a wide popularity with his later volumes of See also:verse: The,See also:West Indies (181o); The See also:World Before the See also:Flood (1812); See also:Greenland (1819); Songs of See also:Zion (1822); The See also:Pelican See also:Island (1826) . On See also:account of the religious See also:character of his See also:poetry, he is sometimes confounded with See also:Robert Montgomery, very much to the injustice of his reputation . His verses were dictated by the inspiring force of humanitarian sentiment, and he was especially eloquent in his denunciation of the slave See also:trade . The See also:influence of See also:Campbell is apparent in his earlier poems, but in the Pelican Island, his last and best See also:work as a poet, he evidently took See also:Shelley as his See also:model . His reputation now rests chiefly on his See also:hymns, about a See also:hundred of which are still in current use . His Lectures on Poetry and See also:General Literature (1833) show considerable breadth of sympathy and See also:power of expression . A See also:pension of £150 was bestowed on him by See also:Sir Robert See also:Peel in 1835 .

He died at Sheffield on the 3oth of See also:

April 1854 . His poems were collected and edited by himself in 1841 . The voluminous See also:Memoirs, published in seven volumes (1856-1858) by See also:John See also:Holland and See also:James See also:Everett, contain valuable See also:information on nglish provincial politics . MONTGOMERY, See also:RICHARD (1736-1775), See also:American soldier, was born in Co . See also:Dublin, Ireland, in 1736 . Educated at St See also:Andrew's and at Trinity See also:College, Dublin, he entered the British See also:army in 1756, becoming See also:captain six years later . He saw See also:war service at Louisbourg in 1757 and in the See also:Lake See also:Champlain expedition of 1759, and as See also:adjutant of his See also:regiment (the 17th See also:foot) he shared in the final threefold advance upon See also:Montreal . Later he was See also:present at See also:Martinique and See also:Havana . In 1772 he See also:left the army, settled in New See also:York, and married a daughter of Robert R . See also:Livingston . Three years later he was a delegate to the first provincial See also:congress of New York, and became brigadier-general in the See also:Continental army . He was sent with See also:Schuyler on the See also:Canadian expedition, and, on Schuyler's falling See also:ill, the command devolved upon him .

Hampered by the in-clemency of the See also:

season and the See also:gross indiscipline of the troops, he went forward, gaining a few See also:minor successes and capturing the See also:colours of the 7th (Royal) Fusiliers, and met See also:Benedict See also:Arnold's contingent at Point aux Trembles . They pushed on to See also:Quebec barely Boo strong, but an See also:assault was made on the 31st of See also:December 1775, and almost at the first See also:discharge Montgomery was killed . The See also:body of the American general was honourably interred by the Quebec See also:garrison . Congress caused a memorial to be erected in St See also:Paul's See also:church, New York, and in 1818 his remains were conveyed thither from Quebec .

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