MONTGOMERY 



5508 



MONTGOMERYSHIRE 



500,000 bales per annum. It is a 

 distributing centre, and has manu- 

 factures of fertilisers, syrups, lum- 

 ber, and machine shop products, 

 confectionery, cigars, carriages and 

 wagons, and cotton goods. Settled 

 in 1814, renamed New Philadelphia 

 in 1817, it was incorporated in 1837 

 and superseded Tuscaloosa as the 

 state capital, 1847. It was the seat 

 of the Confederate government from 

 Feb. to May, 1861, and was taken 

 by the Federal forces, April 12, 

 1865. Pop. 43.500. 



Montgomery. District and 

 town of India, in the Punjab, 

 Multan division. The district lies 

 between the Sutlej and Ravi rivers, 

 in the Bari Doab. The middle of 

 the area is high and dry, and culti- 

 vation depends largely upon the 

 irrigation canals, the rainfall 

 being but 14 ins. a year. Wheat and 

 pulses are the chief crops. The 

 arid, higher ground is devoted to 

 the herds of the pastoral Jats. The 

 town is close to the Ravi, and the 

 Lower Bari Doab Canal brings 

 irrigation water. It dates from 1864, 

 when the village of Sahiwal was 

 made the dist. headquarters, and 

 renamed after the lieut.- govern or 

 of the Punjab. Area 4,652 sq. m. 

 Pop., dist., 535,300: town, 8,100. 

 Montgomery, GABRIEL, COMTE 

 I>E (c. 1530-74). French soldier. 

 Son of Jacques de Montgomery, 

 ^^^^^^_^_^___ and grandson 

 of a Scottish 

 officer in the 

 French service, 

 he went to 

 Scotland in 

 1545, with 

 forces sent 

 to Mary of 

 Lorraine, b y 

 Francis 1. On 

 June 30, 1559, 

 in a tourna- 

 ment, he accidentally inflicted a 

 mortal wound on Henry II of 

 France. Taking refuge in England, 

 he became a Protestant, and re- 

 turned to join the Huguenot armies 

 in 1562. He defended Bourges and 

 Rouen against royal forces, unsuc- 

 cessfully attacked Mont St. Michel 

 1503, and in 1569 invaded the 

 county of Beam, capturing Orthez. 

 He escaped from the massacre of 

 S. Bartholomew, 1572, taking refuge 

 in Jersey, and again in England. 

 In 1573 his attempt to enter La 

 Rochelle failed, and he was cap- 

 tured at Domfront. Taken to Paris, 

 he was tried and executed, May 25, 

 1574. His sons Jacques (1570- 1609) 

 and Gabriel (d. 1635) also played 

 a prominent part in the religious 

 wars. See Life,. L. Marlet, 1890 



Montgomery, JAMES (1771- 

 1854X Scottish poet. Born at 

 Irvine, Ayrshire, Nov. 4, 1771, 



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Comte de 

 Montgomery. 

 French soldier 



After T. B. tllidge 



the son of a 

 Moravian mis- 

 si onary, he 

 was appren- 

 ticed to a 

 baker, and in 

 1792 became 

 a clerk in the 

 office of The 

 Sheffield Reg- 

 ister. In 1795 

 he started 

 The Sheffield 

 Iris, which he 

 edited until 



1825, twice getting into trouble for 

 publishing seditious matter. He 

 was a man of exemplary character, 

 reflected in the strong religious 

 tone of his poems, of which The 

 World Before the Flood, 1813, and 

 Greenland, 1819, are the best 

 known. He also wrote numerous 

 hymns, including For ever with the 

 Lord! and Hail to the Lord's 

 Anointed. He died at Sheffield, 

 April 30, 1854. See Life, J. Holland 

 and J. Everett, 1854-56 ; Poetical 

 Works repr. 1881. 



Montgomery, ROBERT (1807- 

 55). British minor poet. Born at 

 Bath, the natural son of a clown 

 named Gom- 

 ery, Mont- 

 gomery, as 

 the son called 

 himself, early 

 developed a 

 facility in the 

 composition 

 of mediocre 

 verse. Not- 

 withstanding 

 a scathing 



Robert Montgomery. 

 < British poet 



criticism of two of his efforts, The 

 Omnipresence of the Deity, 1828, 

 and Satan, 1830, by Macaulay in 

 The Edinburgh Review, April, 

 1830, he enjoyed a vogue which 

 bore no relation to his intrinsic 

 merits. In 1830 Montgomery went 

 to Lincoln College, Oxford, gradua- 

 ted, took orders, and became a 

 successful preacher in Glasgow and 

 in London. He died at Brighton, 

 Dec. 3, 1855 



Montgomeryshire. Inland 

 county of N. Wales. Its area is 

 797 sq. m. It is almost entirely 

 surrounded by 

 mountains, and 

 is itself a hilly re- 

 gion. The Plyn- 

 limon range is 

 in the S.W., and 

 elsewhere on the 

 borders are the 

 Berwyn Hills, 

 Breidden Hills, 

 and Kerry Hills. 

 The chief rivers are the Severn, 

 which rises here, and its tributaries, 

 the Tanat and Vyrnwy, also the 

 Wye. Herein is the artificial 

 lake Vyrnwy. Oats are grown, 

 sheep and ponies are reared, and 

 ?late is quarried. 



The chief town is Montgomery, 

 but Welshpool, Llanidloes, and 

 Llanfyllin are larger. Newtown and 

 Machynlleth are urban districts. 

 The Cambrian Rly. and the Mont- 

 gomeryshire canal, 24 m. long, 

 serve the county. There are some 

 British and many Roman remains 

 in the county, which, before it was 

 made into a shire, was part of the 

 district of Powys. It sends one 



Ilontgomeryshire. 



Seal of the County 



Council 



Montgomeryshire. Map of the inland and pastoral county of North Wales 



