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'''George Washington Montgomery''', or '''Jorge Montgomery''' ([[Alicante]], [[Spain]], [[1804]] - [[Washington D.C.]], [[June 5]], [[1841]]) was an [[United States of America|American]] [[Spain|Spanish-born]] writer, translator and diplomat.<ref>[https://ift.tt/2BVcMcX The Political Graveyard.com]</ref>
His father was an Irishman businessman, John Montgomery; his mother was perhaps a Spaniard. His father had lived in [[Boston]] and had settled in [[Alicante]], where he was a U.S. consul. George spent his childhood in England, and studied Humanities in Exeter. Then he had some minor function in U.S. embassy at Madrid; afterwards he was secretary of [[Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo|Carlos Martinez de Irujo y Tacón]], former Spanish minister to the United States from 1796 to 1807, married with an American lady, [[Sarah Maria Theresa McKean]], <ref>[[Thomas McKean]] daughter by his second wife, Sarah Armitage.</ref> with whom George held a long friendship. Thanks to U.S. minister [[Alexander Hill Everett]], [[Washington Irving]] met his namesake in the Madrid ''tertulia'' of Mrs. Sarah McKean, a widow by then (1826), and the friendship between the two was never interrupted. Montgomery held various diplomatic positions: U.S. consul in [[San Juan de Puerto Rico]], 1835-38; [[Tampico]], 1840-41. He is entombed at [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2BVcMcX The Political Graveyard.com]</ref>
As a writer and translator, he wrote adaptations of some minor works of Washington Irving in ''Tareas de un solitario'',<ref>''Tareas de un solitario, o nueva colección de novelas'', Madrid: Imprenta Espinosa, 1829</ref> and the first Spanish translation of ''The Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada'' by this author.<ref>''Crónica de la conquista de Granada. Escrita en inglés por Mr. Washington Irving. Tr. al castellano por Don Jorge W. Montgomery ...'', Madrid: Impr. de I. Sancha, 1831.</ref> In 1832, published ''El bastardo de Castilla'', «historical novel, chivalrous, original» about the romantic medieval hero [[Bernardo del Carpio]].<ref>''El bastardo de Castilla. Novela historica, caballeresca, original, por don Jorge Montgomery ..'', Madrid: Imprenta de I. Sancha, 1832.</ref> In 1839, ''Narrative of a journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838'', an interesting travelogue about these regions, was published in New York.<ref>''Narrative of a journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838'' / by G.W. Montgomery.
New York : Wiley & Putnam, 1839.</ref>
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[[Category:1804 births]]
[[Category:1841 deaths]]
[[Category:American Hispanists]]
[[Category:19th-century American diplomats]]
[[Category:19th-century American writers]]
[[Category:English-Spanish translators]]
[[Category:People from Alicante]]
[[Category:American people of Irish descent]]
[[Category:American people of Spanish descent]]
His father was an Irishman businessman, John Montgomery; his mother was perhaps a Spaniard. His father had lived in [[Boston]] and had settled in [[Alicante]], where he was a U.S. consul. George spent his childhood in England, and studied Humanities in Exeter. Then he had some minor function in U.S. embassy at Madrid; afterwards he was secretary of [[Carlos Martínez de Irujo, 1st Marquess of Casa Irujo|Carlos Martinez de Irujo y Tacón]], former Spanish minister to the United States from 1796 to 1807, married with an American lady, [[Sarah Maria Theresa McKean]], <ref>[[Thomas McKean]] daughter by his second wife, Sarah Armitage.</ref> with whom George held a long friendship. Thanks to U.S. minister [[Alexander Hill Everett]], [[Washington Irving]] met his namesake in the Madrid ''tertulia'' of Mrs. Sarah McKean, a widow by then (1826), and the friendship between the two was never interrupted. Montgomery held various diplomatic positions: U.S. consul in [[San Juan de Puerto Rico]], 1835-38; [[Tampico]], 1840-41. He is entombed at [[Oak Hill Cemetery (Washington, D.C.)|Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.]]<ref>[https://ift.tt/2BVcMcX The Political Graveyard.com]</ref>
As a writer and translator, he wrote adaptations of some minor works of Washington Irving in ''Tareas de un solitario'',<ref>''Tareas de un solitario, o nueva colección de novelas'', Madrid: Imprenta Espinosa, 1829</ref> and the first Spanish translation of ''The Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada'' by this author.<ref>''Crónica de la conquista de Granada. Escrita en inglés por Mr. Washington Irving. Tr. al castellano por Don Jorge W. Montgomery ...'', Madrid: Impr. de I. Sancha, 1831.</ref> In 1832, published ''El bastardo de Castilla'', «historical novel, chivalrous, original» about the romantic medieval hero [[Bernardo del Carpio]].<ref>''El bastardo de Castilla. Novela historica, caballeresca, original, por don Jorge Montgomery ..'', Madrid: Imprenta de I. Sancha, 1832.</ref> In 1839, ''Narrative of a journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838'', an interesting travelogue about these regions, was published in New York.<ref>''Narrative of a journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838'' / by G.W. Montgomery.
New York : Wiley & Putnam, 1839.</ref>
== References ==
[[Category:1804 births]]
[[Category:1841 deaths]]
[[Category:American Hispanists]]
[[Category:19th-century American diplomats]]
[[Category:19th-century American writers]]
[[Category:English-Spanish translators]]
[[Category:People from Alicante]]
[[Category:American people of Irish descent]]
[[Category:American people of Spanish descent]]
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