never joined. He afterwards, 21 March, 1818, assumed command of the Confiance 18, fitting for the West Indies, where he became, 13 July, 1820, Acting-Captain of the Sapphire 26. He was confirmed 3 Oct. following; and in Sept. 1821 he returned to England and was paid off. He accepted the Retirement 1 Oct. 1846. Agent – John P. Muspratt.
MONTGOMERY. (Captain, 1846.)
Alexander Leslie Montgomery, born 15 March, 1807, is second son (by Sarah Mercer, daughter of Leslie Grove, Esq., of Grove Hall, co. Donegal) of the late Sir Henry Cunningham Montgomery, Bart., M.P. for St. Michael’s and the borough of Yarmouth, who, during the war with Tippoo Sultan, won distinction at the head of three battalions of infantry and 5000 cavalry, and was afterwards, in 1803, appointed Inspecting Field-officer of Yeomanry and Volunteers in co. Donegal, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Capt. Montgomery’s eldest brother, the present Sir Henry Cunningham Montgomery, Bart., is in the civil service of the East India Company at Madras; his next, Hugh, is an officer in the Madras Army; and his youngest, Arthur, is married to a daughter of Colonel Wyndham, of Petworth House, co. Sussex. His eldest sister is the wife of the Hon. and Rev. Grantham Munter Yorke, youngest son of the late Admiral Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, K.C.B., and brother of the Earl of Hardwicke, Captain R.N.
This officer entered the Royal Naval College 7 Oct. 1819; embarked in Oct. 1821; and, on passing his final examination, was made Lieutenant, 30 Aug. 1828, into the Helicon 10, Capt. Robt. Henry Stanhope, at the Cape of Good Hope. His succeeding appointments were – 26 Feb. 1830, to the Alligator 28, Capt. Chas. Philip Yorke (now Earl of Hardwicke), with whom he served in the Mediterranean until paid off in the summer of 1831 – 9 May, 1833, to the Orestes 18, Capts. Wm. Nugent Glascock and Sir Wm. Dickson, in which vessel he continued, chiefly on the Lisbon station, until put out of commission in the spring of 1834 – and 16 July, 1836, to the Inconstant 36, Capt. Dan. Pring, also attached to the force off Lisbon. He was promoted from the latter ship to the rank of Commander 28 June, 1838; and from 12 March, 1845, until advanced to the rank he now holds, 2 July, 1846, was employed on the south-east coast of America in the Grecian 16. He has since been on half-pay.
Capt. Montgomery married, 30 June, 1840, Caroline Rose, daughter of Jas. Campbell, Esq., of Hampton Court, co. Middlesex. Agent – J. Hinxman.
MONTGOMERY. (Commander, 1815. f-p.,22; h-p., 27.)
Thomas Montgomery, born 10 March, 1786, is son of the Rev. Robt. Montgomery, Rector of Monaghan, whose family for many generations represented co. Monaghan in Parliament.
This officer entered the Royal Naval Academy in July, 1798; embarked, in May, 1802, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Aurora 38, Capt. Micajah Malbon; and in the course of the following year was present, as Midshipman, at the surrender of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. From Feb. 1804 to March, 1806, he served, chiefly at the blockade of Brest, in the Plantagenet 74, Capts. Hon. Michael De Courcy, Fras. Pender, and Wm. Bradley. He then removed to the Forward gun-brig, Lieut.-Commander Dan. Shiels, and on 1 Oct. following he was made Lieutenant into the Uranie 38, Capts. Christopher Laroche and Thos. Manby, also on the coast of France. His succeeding appointments were – 13 Oct. 1807, to the Hyacinth sloop, Capt. John Davie, whom he accompanied to the Brazils – 12 Dec. 1808, to the Marlborough 74, Capt. Graham Moore, employed at first on the latter station, and then in the North Sea, where, in 1809, he commanded a division of boats at the bombardment of Flushing, and continued attached to the gun-boat service on the river Scheldt until the evacuation of Walcheren – at the close of 1811 (after about 12 months of half-pay) to the Africaine 38, Capt. Hon. Edw. Rodney, for passage on promotion to the East Indies – in 1812 to the Hecate 18, Capt. Joseph Drury, the boats of which sloop he commanded in Jan. 1813, at the storming of the works of Sambas, a piratical settlement on the coast ot Borneo – and 13 Jan. 1814, to the Clorinde 38, Capt Thos. Briggs, with whom he returned home and was paid off in Sept. of the same year. He was advanced to his present rank 13 June, 1815; and was subsequently employed for a period of seven years in the Coast Guard in Ireland. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
MONTRESOR. (Commander, 1843.)
Frederick Byng Montresor entered the Navy 27 June, 1823; passed his examination in 1829; and obtained his first commission 30 July, 1835. His succeeding appointments were, on the North America and West India station – 30 Dec. 1835, as Additional-Lieutenant, to the President 52, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn – 24 March, 1836, to the Forte 44, Capt. Watkin Owen Pell – 3 Feb. 1837, again as Additional, to the Melville 74, bearing the flag of Sir Peter Halkett – 13 July, 1837, to the Champion 18, Capt. Geo. St. Vincent King – 18 March, 1839 (a few months after the latter vessel had been paid off), to the Winchester 50, flag-ship of Sir Thos. Harvey – and 12 Dec. 1840, to the command of the Pickle schooner. He acquired the rank he now holds 12 Jan. 1843; and has been in command, since 20 April, 1846, of the Cygnet 6, and Wanderer 12, on the coast of Africa. His appointment to the latter vessel took place 14 Feb. 1847.
MONYPENNY. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 17; h-p., 7.)
William Backhouse Monypenny, born 13 Dec. 1808, is fourth son of the late Thos. Monypenny, Esq., by Catherine, daughter of Isaac Button, Esq., of Ospringe and Whitehills, co. Kent; and brother of the present Thos. Gybbon Monypenny, Esq., of Hole House, Rolvenden, a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for cos. Kent and Sussex, and late M.P. for Rye. His youngest brother, Robert Honywood, died a Captain in the 4th Infantry 8 March, 1839.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 April, 1823, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Ramillies 74, Capt. Edw. Brace, with whom, until Nov. 1824, he served on the Home and West India stations, part of the time as Midshipman of the Ganges 84. He was then for three years and a half employed in the Gannet 18, Capt. Fras. Brace, on the coast of Ireland, and also in the Mediterranean; where he further, from 1828 until 1830, served on board the Gloucester 74, Capt. Houston Stewart, and Pelican 18, Capt. Fras. Deane Hutcheson. Joining next, 9 Nov. 1831, in the capacity of Mate (he had passed his examination 4 July, 1829), the Aetna surveying-vessel, Capt. Edw. Belcher, he proceeded to the coast of Africa, and was afterwards, previously to his return to the Mediterranean, employed on the river Douro for the protection of British property during the hostilities between Pedro and Miguel. While in charge, in 1833, of one of the Aetna’s decked boats, manned with but 4 hands, he accidentally lost sight of the ship off the Straits of Gibraltar, but providentially succeeded in reaching Portsmouth in his flimsy tenement after a passage of 19 days, arriving there on 18 Sept. Towards the close of the same year he again sailed for the African coast in the Aetna, with Capt. Wm. Geo. Skyring. He continued in that vessel under the command of Lieut. Wm. Arlett and Capt. Alex. Thos. Emeric Vidal (10 months of the time as Acting-Lieutenant) until Oct. 1835; and on 30 Sept. 1837 (having further served as Mate, in the Channel, off Lisbon, in the Mediterranean, and at Plymouth, in the Pembroke 74, Capts. Sir Thos. Fellowes and Fairfax Moresby, and Donegal 78, Capts. Fras.
