Sir Charles Hubert Montgomery (24 August 1876 – 2 December 1942) was a British

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and

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. Montgomery was the fifth son of the politician Hugh Montgomery and was born at

Blessingbourne House Blessingbourne House is a large Elizabethan style manor-house situated in parkland near Fivemiletown in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The present house was designed by Frederick Pepys Cockerell and constructed between 1870 and 1874. It is bui ...

, near

Fivemiletown Fivemiletown is a village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is 16 miles (26 km) east of Enniskillen and 26 miles (43 km) west-south-west of Dungannon, on the A4 Enniskillen-to-Dungannon road. Fivemiletown's populat ...

County Tyrone County Tyrone (; ) is one of the six Counties of Northern Ireland, counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional Counties of Ireland, counties of Ireland. It is no longer used as an admini ...

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. He was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

and in 1900 joined the

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as a clerk. From 1904 to 1907 he served as Private Secretary to the

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, and from 1907 to 1910 he was précis writer to the

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, with a brief interlude in 1908 when he served as Assistant Private Secretary to

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Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (né Campbell; 7 September 183622 April 1908) was a British statesman and Liberal politician. He served as the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1905 to 1908 and leader of the Liberal Party from 1899 to 190 ...

. He was secretary of the

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's office for the Coronation of

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in 1911, for which he was appointed

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(CVO), and in 1913 he was appointed

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. In 1918 he was on the staff of the Earl of Reading's embassy to the

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and in 1919 he was appointed Chief Clerk and Assistant Secretary of the Foreign Office. In 1922 he was promoted to Assistant Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and in 1930 Deputy Under-Secretary of State. In 1933 he received his first and only senior overseas posting when he was appointed

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. He held this post until his retirement in 1938. Montgomery was appointed

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(CB) in the 1920 New Year War Honours,

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(KCMG) in the

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, and

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(KCVO) in 1930.

Footnotes

References

*Obituary, ''

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'', 5 December 1942

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Montgomery, Hubert 1876 births 1942 deaths People from County Tyrone People educated at Charterhouse School People educated at Summer Fields School Members of HM Foreign Service Members of HM Diplomatic Service Private secretaries in the British Civil Service Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Netherlands Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companions of the Order of the Bath 20th-century British diplomats