MONTGOMERY, HOLLINGSWORTH TULLY (1885-1965)

MONTGOMERY, HOLLINGSWORTH TULLY, Anglican rector, Derby and Blackville, 1912-21; b. Fredericton, 19 Apr 1885, s/o the Rev. Henry B. Montgomery and Mary Bernard Scarnell; m. 1924, Mary Ruth Thurber, d/o William Garrison Thurber and Mary A. Wathen, of Millerton, formerly of Kent Co., N.B.; d. Banff, Alta, 7 Jul 1965.

When he was rector of Kingsclear, near Fredericton, H. Tully Montgomery's father, the Rev. Henry B. Montgomery, served the Anglican mission of Ludlow and Blissfield on a monthly basis for approximately fifteen years, until Mansel M. C. Shewen took over in 1903. The arrangement was made possible by the opening of the railway between Fredericton and Boiestown in 1887 and the erection of St James the Greater Church at Ludlow that year. During the period of his service St Andrew's Church was built at Doaktown and consecrated on 17 May 1892, and St Peter's was erected at Boiestown, although it remained in an unfinished state..

H. Tully Montgomery was educated at the University of New Brunswick (BA 1907) and trained for the ministry at King's College, Windsor, and the Leeds Clergy School in England. Ordained an Anglican priest in 1911, he was assistant curate in an English parish before being appointed rector of Derby and Blackville in November 1912. While discharging his responsibilities as priest he continued with his studies, and in May 1915 King's College conferred an MA on him. He was on leave of absence for five months in 1915-16, when he assisted in Saint John, and for seventeen months in 1917-18, when he supplied at St Barnabas Church in Calgary in place of his father, who had enlisted in the armed forces and was serving as chaplain of a military hospital in England.

Montgomery moved to Alberta to stay in 1921. He was rector of Drumheller until 1924 and then succeeded his father as rector of Banff. He was at Banff for the duration of his ministry, and during the Royal Tour in 1939 conducted a service there for King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. He retired in 1955. When he died ten years later he was survived by his wife, M. Ruth Thurber, and two daughters.