词条 | George Washington Montgomery |
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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 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, [2] 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.[3] As a writer and translator, he wrote adaptations of some minor works of Washington Irving in Tareas de un solitario,[4] and the first Spanish translation of The Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada by this author.[5] In 1832, published El bastardo de Castilla, «historical novel, chivalrous, original» about the romantic medieval hero Bernardo del Carpio.[6] In 1839, Narrative of a journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838, an interesting travelogue about these regions, was published in New York.[7] References1. ^The Political Graveyard.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Montgomery, George Washington}}2. ^Thomas McKean daughter by his second wife, Sarah Armitage. 3. ^The Political Graveyard.com 4. ^Tareas de un solitario, o nueva colección de novelas, Madrid: Imprenta Espinosa, 1829 5. ^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. 6. ^El bastardo de Castilla. Novela historica, caballeresca, original, por don Jorge Montgomery .., Madrid: Imprenta de I. Sancha, 1832. 7. ^Narrative of a journey to Guatemala, in Central America, in 1838 / by G.W. Montgomery.New York : Wiley & Putnam, 1839. 9 : 1804 births|1841 deaths|American Hispanists|19th-century American diplomats|19th-century American writers|English–Spanish translators|People from Alicante|American people of Irish descent|American people of Spanish descent |
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