Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

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Montgomery was born in Kennington, London, in 1887, the fourth child of nine, to an AngloIrish Church of Ireland minister, the Reverend Henry Montgomery, and his wife, Maud . The Montgomerys, an Ascendancy gentry family, were the County Donegal branch of the Clan Montgomery. Henry Montgomery, Vicar of St Marks Church, Kennington, at that time, was the second son of General Sir Robert Montgomery, a native of Inishowen in County Donegal, the noted soldier and proconsul in British India, who died a month after his grandsons birth. He was probably a descendant of Colonel Alexander Montgomery . Bernards mother, Maud, was the daughter of the preacher Frederic William Farrar and was eighteen years younger than her husband. After the death of Sir Robert Montgomery, Henry inherited the Montgomery ancestral estate of New Park in Moville, County Donegal. However, there was still 13,000 to pay on a mortgage, a large debt in the 1880s, and Henry was at the time still only an Anglican vicar. Despite

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