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Montgomery, Henry Hutchinson, 1847-1932 (Bishop of Tasmania)

 Person

Biography

Henry Hutchinson Montgomery was the Bishop of Tasmania 1889-1901. He took several of the photographs in Y309A, which are reproduced in Montgomery, H.H. (1896), 'The light of Melanesia : a record of fifty years' mission work in the South Seas', London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.

Sources:

Typescript copy of 'Index to Photographers'.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

 Fonds

Views in Melanesia

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y309A
Scope and Contents An album containing mounted prints, most measuring approximately 205 x 150 mm. Photographs by Bishop Henry Hutchinson Montgomery, Rev. Dr. Henry Welchman and Rev. Arthur Brittain. A handwritten key at the front of the album provides the captions used in the catalogue, which have been recorded as found. A passage from the preface of H.H. Montgomery’s ‘The light of Melanesia’ in which many of these photographs are used as illustrations, contains a note on the photographers:‘The...
Dates: 1892
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