John Monteath CIE (9 October 1878 – 11 June 1955) was an Irish first-class cricketer and colonial official in British India.
[1] During this time, he played a first-class cricket match for the Europeans against the Parsees at Bombay.
He served as an Assistant Political Agent in Kathiawar from 1908–1915, before taking up the post of Municipal Commissioner in Ahmedabad, a position he held for a few months in 1915.
[1] Monteath was made a Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire in the 1937 New Year Honours.
[5] He returned to England around the time of Indian Independence, and was living at Bury St Edmunds.