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Authorised form of nameMontgomerie; Thomas George (1830 - 1878)
Dates1830 - 1878
Date of birth23 April 1830
Place of deathBath, Somerset
Date of death31 January 1878
ActivityEducation:
Addiscombe
Career:
Royal Engineers (Bengal) (1849); First Lieutenant (1854); Captain (1858); posted to the Trigonometrical Survey, taking charge in Janin and Kashmir (1855-1864); posted to the Himalyan Survey in Kumaon and Gharwal (1867); Superintendent, great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1870-1873); Major (1872); Lieutenant Colonel (1874); retired as Colonel (1876)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1872
RelationshipsSon of Colonel William Eglinton Montgomerie of Annick Lodge, Ayrshire, and his wife Susanna Fraser, daughter of John Anderson; married (11 February 1865) Jane Farrington, daughter of General John Farrington RA
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/312295
CodeNA6362
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1872/04Montgomerie, Thomas George: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MC/9/399Letter from T [Thomas] Montgomerie, Mussoorie, to the Secretary of the Royal Society22 July 1872
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
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