Joined Property Tax Department as cadet 1880; transferred to Customs Department 1882; appointed comptroller for New Zealand 1911; retired 1923. Responsible for much legislation administered by Customs Department during term of office. Chairman of Tariff Commission 1920. [Source: WWNZ 1925]. Artist, painter of New Zealand scenes, exhibiting at the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts from 1918-1934. Described in his obituary as a qualified chemist, and "no mean artist". (See Dominion, 23 November 1936, page 10).
Montgomery, William Barr, 1865-1936
Montgomery, W B, 1865-1936
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Personalities - Men - Surnames, Mo - O
Date: 1927-1951
From: New Zealand Free Lance : Photographic prints and negatives
Reference: PAColl-0785-1-208
Description: Photographs taken for publication in the New Zealand Free Lance, ca 1920s-1950s. Names of most subjects entered in Name Field. Also includes: D (or William) Murphy, a rat catcher, 1938; Monoghan (Catholic priest), 1934; Mme T Murashkina (Stalingrad deputy mayor), 1951; Sir James O'Grady (Labour MP in England and later Governor of Tasmania), 1931; Duke of Orleans, 1933; Hon William Ormsby-Gore, 1920s; Squadron Leader Orlebar, 1931; Dwight W Morrow (USA Ambassador to Mexico), 1927; General Eoin O'Duffy (Leader of the Ireland's Army Comrades Association "Blue Shirts"), 1930s; Dr Thomas F O'Higgins and two sons (senior Irish politician and founder and president of Army Comrades Association), 1933; Augustus Muir, 1935; Red Moore; Colonel & Mrs Robert Montgomery, 1951; Thomas J Mooney; Lord Moyne; H U Moffat (Premier Southern Rhodesia), 1932; L A Mussent (Leader of Dutch Nazi Party), 1940; Flying Officer J A Mollison; Admiral William S Moffett, 1933; Sir Landon Ronald, principal of Guildhall School of Music, London, and Benno Moiseiwitsch, 1935. Women honoured by Women's National Press Club of Washington for their outstanding achievements in 1948 (named on verso); Admiral M P O'Callaghan (naval tutor to King George & commander of HMS Philomel), 1931. A McAulay, M O'Brien & W S Bennett; Flying Officer Harold Owen (Australian pilot), 1929; W J R Christophersen & A M Ongley (selectors); Mrs A Oliphant of Dunedin (passenger on Athenia), 1939; Dr F W Norwood (Congregational minister of London) and family, 1934. Quantity: 85 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin prints
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Montgomery, William Barr, b 1865 :[Old Bowen Street with Wellington's first Arts Club, ...
Date: 1910
By: Montgomery, William Barr, 1865-1936
Reference: A-196-002
Description: Shows a view looking up Bowen Street to its junction with the Terrace (the full length of Bowen Street at that time). Museum Street goes off on the right, and Alexander Turnbull's garden fence is on the left. A man pushes a handcart up the street. The Arts Club building is a white two-storeyed building with round-arched windows at the end of Bowen Street. The artist may be William Barr Montgomery, C.B.E. of Kelburn, who was Comptroller of Customs in Wellington, and described in his obituary as a chemist and "no mean artist". (See Dominion, 23 November 1936, page 10). Wellington Arts Club was founded in 1910 (See NZ free lance, 11 June 1910, page 6, column c, and page 14, column a). Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour, 177 x 254 mm