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Printed in Encyclopædia Metropolitana, 1853. _d._ Futtyghur, Bengal 18 Feb. 1854, memorial monument erected in cemetery at Futtyghur. _Memoirs of Colonel A. S. H. Mountain_, _edited by Mrs. A. S. H. Mountain_ (1857) _portrait_.

MOUNTAIN, GEORGE JEHOSHAPHAT (brother of the preceding). _b._ Norwich 27 July 1789; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, D.D. 1819; secretary to his father, the bishop of Quebec; R. of Frederickton, New Brunswick 1814–7; R. of Quebec 1817; archdeacon of Lower Canada 1821; consecrated at Lambeth 14 Feb. 1836 bishop of Montreal, as coadjutor to the bishop of Quebec, had charge of the entire diocese until 1839, when Upper Canada was made a separate see; had sole charge of Lower Canada until 1850; bishop of Quebec 19 July 1850 to death; established in 1845 the Lower Canadian church university, Bishop’s college, Lennoxville for the education of clergymen; D.C.L. Oxford 1853; author of The journal of the bishop of Montreal during a visit to the church missionary society’s north-west American mission 1845, 2 ed. 1849; Songs of the wilderness 1846; Journal of a visitation in a portion of the diocese by the lord bishop of Montreal 1847; Sermons 1865. _d._ Bardfield, Quebec 6 Jany. 1863. _A. W. Mountain’s Memoir of G. J. Mountain_ (1866) _portrait_; _F. Taylor’s The last three bishops appointed by the crown for the church of Canada_ (1870) 131–86 _portrait_; _Appleton’s American biography iv_ 447–8 (1888) _portrait_; _Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadiensis_ (1867) 284–7; _I.L.N. xli_ 576, 587 (1862) _portrait_.

MOUNTAIN, JACOB GEORGE (2 son of Jacob Henry Brooke Mountain 1788–1872). _b._ 14 Oct. 1818; ed. on foundation of Eton school, Newcastle medallist 1837; postmaster Merton coll. Oxf., 1837–41; rowed in boat race against Cambridge 1840–1; B.A. 1841, M.A. 1847; private tutor at Eton; C. of Clewer near Windsor 1846; went to Newfoundland as a missionary April 1847; dean of Fortune bay 1847–54; principal of St. John’s college, Newfoundland 1854 to death; commissary of bishop of Newfoundland to death; R. of cathedral ch. of St. John’s March 1856 to death. _d._ St. John’s, Newfoundland 10 Oct. 1856. _bur._ St. John’s cemetery. _Lives of missionaries, North America_ (1864) 206–52.

MOUNTAIN, JACOB HENRY BROOKE (brother of G. J. Mountain 1789–1863). _b._ Norwich Jany. 1788; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., B.A. 1810, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1836, D.D. 1842; preb. of Lincoln cath. 23 March 1812 to death; R. of South Ferriby, Lincs. 1812–4; R. of Puttenham, Lincs. 1814–31; R. of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks. 1814–7; V. of Hemel, Hempstead, Herts. 1820–46; R. of Blunham, Beds. 29 Jany. 1831 to death; a contributor to the British Critic; translator of A tract on preparation for death by D. Erasmus 1866; author of Advent, twelve sermons 1834; Twenty one sermons 1835; A summary of the writings of Lactantius 1839; to the Encyclopædia Metropolitana he contributed to History of Greece, 1852, chapters ii, x, xi, and xii, to The history of the Roman empire, Cæsar to Vitellius 1853, chapters i, viii, ix and to The history of Roman empire from Vespasian 1853,