Montgomery

Montgomery, ROBERT, poetaster, was born at Bath in 1807, the son of one Gomery, a famous clown. In 1830 he entered Lincoln College, Oxford; in 1833 took his B.A. with a fourth class; in 1835 was ordained; and, with the exception of four years in Glasgow (1838-42), was minister of Percy Street Chapel, London, until his death at Brighton on 3d December 1855. Of his thirty-one works in verse and prose, two—The Omnipresence of the Deity (1828; 29th ed. 1855) and Satan (1830)—are still remembered, but only by Macaulay's onslaught in the Edinburgh Review for April 1830.