Background
He was born in North Ayrshire, the younger son of Adam Montgomery, 5th Laird of Braidstane, and brother of Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery, who used his influence on George"s behalf.
He was born in North Ayrshire, the younger son of Adam Montgomery, 5th Laird of Braidstane, and brother of Hugh Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery, who used his influence on George"s behalf.
Their mother was a Montgomery cousin. There he began the construction of The Cathedral Church of Saint Eunan. At the same time he was made Bishop of Clogher and Bishop of Derry.
And in 1607 lobbied Lord Salisbury for the establishment of free schools in Ulster.
In 1608 when O"Doherty"s Rebellion broke out, the settlement of Derry was captured and burnt by the rebels led by Sir Cahir O"Doherty. Although Montgomery and O"Doherty had been on good terms before the rising, the rebels burnt the Bishop"s house and his library of two thousand books because of their "heretical" content.
From 1609 he assisted in the plantation of Scots in western Ulster. From 1610 he was Bishop of Meath, retaining the Norwich deanery to 1614, and the Raphoe bishopric for the rest of his life.
Bishop Montgomery was also rector of Chedzoy.
After his death in London in 1620/21 his body was taken to Ireland and buried at Ardbraccan church. He had one daughter Jane, who married Nicholas Street Lawrence, 11th Baron Howth. Her father, who had accumulated great wealth, was able to provide a dowry of £3000, a considerable sum at the time.