James Montgomery (priest)

James Francis Montgomery FRSE (10 July 1818 – 21 September 1897[1]) was trained as an Anglican priest and served as Dean in St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Edinburgh.

[4] In the 1840s he is listed as an operational Edinburgh advocate working from 17 Atholl Crescent in the West End, living together with Robert Montgomery.

[5] In the mid-1850s, he had a change of direction and studied divinity at Durham University, graduating with a BA in 1858 before being ordained, and serving as a curate at Puddletown.

[7] In 1868, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for his early photographic experiments, his proposer being Philip Kelland.

A fine recumbent effigy of Montgomery exists on the north side of the choir stalls, sculpted by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray five years after his death (1902).