Background
Montgomery is the son of the World World War II field marshal, Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
politician Member of the House of Lords
Montgomery is the son of the World World War II field marshal, Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.
He was educated at Winchester College and gained an engineering degree at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Montgomery entered business, working for Yardley and several other companies, building close links with Latin America. He has served as a patron and chairman of various Anglo-Latin American organisations, including the Anglo-Argentine Society, Canning House and the Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Council. He succeeded in the viscountcy following his father"s death in 1976 and originally sat as a Conservative in the House of Lords until 1999, when he and most other hereditary peers were removed from the House under the House of Lords Acting 1999.
He was returned to the Lords as a crossbencher in an election of hereditary cross-bench peers in 2005, following the death of Baroness Strange.
He has also received decorations from Germany, Belgium, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela and Colombia. He co-wrote The Lonely Leader: Monty 1944-1945 with Alistair Horne about his father in 1994 which documented his own early life as well as his father"son
