Montgomrey James Edward

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Biografie:
James Edward Montgomrey (1882-1965)
J. E. Montgomrey (he was very particular about the correct spelling of the last syllable in his name) was born on March 16, 1882, and took his B.Sc. (Eng.) with Honours at London University in 1906. During the First War, he served as a Staff Captain.
In 1920 he joined the staff of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, being appointed Assistant Secretary the same year; in 1939 he became Secretary, relinquishing the appointment in 1942. He gave up his house in Surrey in 1945 and retired to Cornwall, and as a result he had been seen but rarely at the Alpine Club during the last twenty years of his life. He had, however, been a familiar figure in the Club, and at meetings of the A.B.M.S.A.C., in the 1930's.
He retained his interest in the Club unflaggingly. He had been elected a member in 1928, having been climbing in the Alps since 1923; and he served on the Committee from 1939 to 1941. He specialised in the Austrian Alps and Dolomites, and in the Engadine; he contributed an attractive and lavishly illustrated paper on these regions in AJ. 48. 58- 65. With the guide Gottfried Schöpf, of Sölden in the Ötztal, he struck up a friendship which lasted until 1937; he wrote a short note about Schöpf in A.J. 57. 93.
On his retirement, Montgomrey threw himself into local affairs in Cornwall with much energy. The Church, Civil Defence, and preeminently technical education were all objects of his devoted interest; he was a co-opted member of the Cornwall Education Committee and a Governor of Cornwall Technical College and of a number of schools. His death (May 16 last) was the subject of notable tributes in the Cornish press and his funeral was attended by an immense number of representatives of educational establishments from all over the county. His wife pre-deceased him and there were no children.
T. S. Blakeney
Quelle: Alpine Journal Volume 70, 1965, Seite 369-370


Geboren am:
16.03.1882
Gestorben am:
16.05.1965