Robert Monteith (1811Glasgow Baptismal Register, 23 December 1811, records Robert Monteith, son of Henry Monteith, manufacturer, and Christian Cameron, witnesses James and John Monteith. (In many published references the year of his birth has been given as 1812.) – 31 March 1884), DL, JP, was a Scottish politician and philanthropist, Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanark.The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: being a complete table of all the descendants now living of Edward III, King of England. Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny et Raineval. Genealogical Publishing Company, 1994
Family
Robert Monteith was born in Glasgow, the only son of Henry Monteith (d. 1848), twice Lord Provost of Glasgow and MP for Lanark Burghs, and his first wife, Christian Cameron.
He was educated at Glasgow University and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles. He converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1846Dublin Evening Post, 9 April 1846 and was a prominent Christian socialist.
In 1844, in a ceremony performed by his nephew, the Revd Francis Garden, he married Wilhelmina Anna Catherine Mellish, third daughter of the late Joseph Mellish of Blythe, Nottinghamshire, the British Consul and Minister Plenipotentiary at Hamburgh.Morning Herald, 21 June 1844 They lived at Carstairs House.
Their son was Joseph Monteith. Their daughter was Mary Frances Monteith, she married Francis Ernest Kerr, son of Reverend Lord Henry Francis Charles Kerr, younger son of William Kerr, 6th Marquess of Lothian, and Louisa Dorothea Hope, daughter of General The Hon Sir Alexander Hope (British Army officer)
Robert Monteith died at Carstairs House on 31 March 1884; his widow would die there on 18 April.Tablet, 26 April 1884
Career
He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Lanarkshire on 27 October 1855.The London Gazette, October 1855, 21812
On 9 February 1870, he accompanied David Urquhart to a private audience with Pope Pius IX.David Urquhart, Robert Monteith and the Catholic Church: A Search for Justice and Peace, Bernard Aspinwall. Innes Review, Volume 31, Edinburgh University Press, 1 Jan 1980
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