Ignatius Montgomery

Montgomery, Ignatius, younger brother of James Montgomery, was born Sept. 4, 1776, at Gracehill, near Ballymena, county of Antrim, a settlement of the [Moravian] Brethren, to which his father, the Rev. John Montgomery, had removed in that year from Irvine, in Ayrshire. Ignatius Montgomery served as minister in four of the Brethren's congregations in England and Ireland. He died at Ockbrook, near Derby, April 28, 1841. [George Arthur Crawford, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)