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|Dates=1738-43, 1760s
|Vocation=Army officer and politician
|Place of Birth=Ayreshire
|Marriage=Jean Lindsay (d.1778); Frances Twysden
|Issue=2 daughters
|Source=History of Parliament Online; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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11th Earl of Eglintoun. After attending grammar school in Scotland, continued education at: Eton College (1738-41). Winchester (1741), and at private schools in Berwick and London (1742-3). 
Montgomerie then joined army where he rose through the ranks. 
Elected MP for Ayrshire in 1761 but defeated in election of 1768. Made governor of Dumbarton Castle (1764). 
Died 1796.