Lt. Col. Duncan Montgomerie
(1789-1878)
14 October 1861

Volume 5, page 143, sitting number 6066.

After completing his studies as a cadet at Fort St George (Madras, India), Montgomerie spent his career engaged on surveys and mapmaking. From 1824 he was appointed Deputy Surveyor General for Madras until the post was abolished in 1833. During this time he held a commission in the 7th Madras Light Cavalry.

Duncan Montgomerie, 'late of the Oriental Club Hanover-square and of 3 Tenterden-street Hanover-square in the County of Middlesex a Major and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel late in the Service of the East India Company' died on 25 April 1878 at 3 Tenterden Street, London. He left an estate valued at £600. 

A brief obituary appeared in the Naval & Military Gazette (8 May 1878): 'Lieutenant-Colonel Duncan Montgomeire, later of the 7th Madras Light Cavalry, died on the 25th of April, in his eighty-ninth year. He entered the military service of the East India Company, on their Madras establishment, in 1807, and retired with the rank of lieutenant-colonel on the 16th March, 1840.'

[From an album that once belonged to the United Service Club.]