Parliamentary Career
Montgomerie was elected to parliament as M.P. for Ayrshire in the general election of 1818, and was re-elected in 1820 and 1826.
He spoke in Parliament on the issue of Sheriffs Depute in Scotland, on 29 March 1822.
He died at Bath, Somerset in May 1829.
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