Matthew Walker Montgomery

Sir Matthew Walker Montgomery DL (18 April 1859[1] – 8 August 1933) was a Scottish businessman who served as Lord Provost of Glasgow from 1923 to 1926.

He was born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, the son of Daniel Montgomery and Mary Sommerville Walker.

[1] The family lived at 41 Adelphi Street in Glasgow, on the south bank of the River Clyde.

The family business, making cork, was originally based at 1 Muirhead Street in the Gorbals district.

[2] He worked in his father's firm of D. Montgomery & Son, cork manufacturers and merchants, based at 10 East Clyde Street at the turn of the century, on the north side of the River Clyde opposite the family home.