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ROBERT MONTGOMERY (1807-1855)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 784 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT MONTGOMERY (1807-1855)  ,
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English poet, natural son of Robert Gomery, was born at Bath in 1807 . He was educated at a private school in Bath, and founded an unsuccessful weekly paper in that city . In 1828 he published The Omni-presence of the Deity, which
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hit popular religious sentiment so exactly that it ran through eight
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editions in as many months . In 1830 followed The Puffiad (a satire), and Satan . An exhaustive review in Blackwood by John Wilson, followed in the
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thirty-first number by a burlesque of Satan, and two articles in the first
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volume of Fraser, ridiculed Montgomery's pretensions and the excesses of his admirers . But his name was immortalized by Macaulay's famous onslaught in the
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Edinburgh Review for
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April 1830 . As a poet, he deserved every word of Macaulay's severe censure, though the brutality of the attack cannot be defended . This exposure did not, however, diminish the sale of his poems; The Omnipresence of the Deity reached its 28th edition in 1858 . In 1830 Montgomery entered Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating B.A. in 1833 and M.A. in 1838 . Taking
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holy orders in 1835 he obtained a curacy at Whittington, Shropshire, which he exchanged in '1836 for the charge of the church of St Jude,
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Glasgow . In 1843 he removed to the parish of St Pancras,
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London, when he was minister of Percy
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Chapel . He died at
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Brighton in 1855 .

He also wrote The

Messiah (1832), Woman, the
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Angel of
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Life (1833), Oxford (1831), and many devotional and theological
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works .

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