Montgomery, Robert (Henry) (1904–1981)

US film actor. He starred in such films of the 1930s and 1940s as Night Must Fall (1937) and Mr and Mrs Smith (1941). He directed some of his later films, such as Lady in the Lake (1947), before turning to television – producing such series as Eye Witness (1953) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–57) – and Republican politics.

Montgomery, Robert (1807–1855)

English poet. He published The Omnipresence of the Deity 1828 and Satan 1830, which was scathingly reviewed in an article by Thomas Macaulay. This classic castigation appeared in the Edinburgh Review April 1830. Montgomery combined a facility in florid versification with muddled metaphor, but lacked a genuinely poetic gift.

He was born in Bath and educated at Lincoln College, Oxford. He was ordained 1835, and was a zealous curate at Whittington in Shropshire. In 1836 he went to London, then to St Jude's Chapel, Glasgow, 1838, and back to London again 1843 to the Percy Street Chapel, St Pancras. At all these places he drew very large audiences, though his style of preaching is said to have resembled that of his poetic effusions.