A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Montgomery, Alexander Leslie
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.