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University of Durham.
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James Montgomery
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He is usually simply referred to as Dean Montgomery. He was born on 10 July 1818 the son of Robert Montgomery and Elizabeth Mason. He studied for the bar before being ordained after a period of study at Durham University, and was a Curate at Puddletown before Edinburgh incumbencies.
He was appointed Dean of Edinburgh in 1873.
And Provost of that Street Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh in 1879. He lived close to the cathedral at 17 Atholl Crescent, a very large townhouse in Edinburgh"s fashionable west education
He died at home on 21 September 1897 and is buried in the northern Victorian extension of Dean Cemetery. A fine recumbent effigy of Montgomery exists on the north side of the choir stalls, sculpted by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray five years after his death (1902).
They had no children.
Membership
Curiously Montgomery was an early photographic pioneer and was one of the youngest members of the Edinburgh Calotype Club, one of the world"s first photographic societies.
