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{{short description|Irish cricketer and colonial official}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
| name =
| image =
| country = Ireland
| full_name = John Monteath
| birth_date = 9 October 1878
| birth_place = [[Bangor, County Down|Ballyholme]], [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Ireland]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1955|6|11|1878|10|9}}
| death_place = [[Awliscombe]], [[Devon]], England
| nickname =
| family =
| batting = Unknown
| bowling =
| role =
| club1 = [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]]
| year1 = 1903/04
| columns = 1
| column1 = [[First-class cricket|First-class]]
| matches1 = 1
| runs1 = 1
| bat avg1 = 0.50
| 100s/50s1 = –/–
| top score1 = 1
| hidedeliveries = true
| catches/stumpings1 = –/–
| date = 1 December
| year = 2018
| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/ireland/content/player/31167.html ESPNcricinfo
}}

'''John Monteath''' {{postnominal|CIE}} (9 October 1878 – 11 June 1955) was an Irish first-class cricketer and colonial official in [[British India]].

Monteath was the son of [[James Monteath|Sir James Monteath]], a colonial administrator in [[British India]].<ref name="BOOK">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuU54j4aT6QC&q=prime+minister+of+Junagadh+State+monteath&pg=PA444 |title=Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 |last=Venn |first=John |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|volume=2nd volume |date=2011 |pages=444–445 |isbn=978-1108036160 |access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref> He was educated at [[Clifton College]],<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p137: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> before going up to [[King's College, Cambridge]] in 1897.<ref name="BOOK"/> He graduated with a [[British undergraduate degree classification#First-class honours|first-class]] in 1900, before joining the [[Indian Civil Service (British India)|Indian Civil Service]] (ICI) in 1902.<ref name="BOOK"/>

His first post in the ICI was as an Assistant Collector at [[Dharwad|Dharwar]], a position he held until 1908.<ref name="BOOK"/> During this time, he played a [[first-class cricket]] match for the [[Europeans cricket team|Europeans]] against the [[Parsees cricket team|Parsees]] at [[Bombay Gymkhana|Bombay]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/14/14141/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by John Monteath |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref> Batting twice in the match, Monteath was dismissed [[duck (cricket)|without scoring]] in the European's first-innings by [[Kekhashru Mistry]], and was dismissed by the same bowler for a single run in their second-innings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6323.html |title=Europeans v Parsees, 1903/04 |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=2018-12-01}}</ref> Fellow Irishman [[James McDonogh]] was also a member of the Europeans team. He served as an Assistant Political Agent in [[Kathiawar]] from 1908–1915, before taking up the post of Municipal Commissioner in [[Ahmedabad]], a position he held for a few months in 1915.<ref name="BOOK"/> He was the [[Postmaster General]] for the [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]] in 1915–1916, before taking up the same post from 1916–1919 in [[Chennai|Madras]].<ref name="BOOK"/> He was a District Magistrate for the [[Bombay Presidency]] and Sind from 1921–1926, and from 1926–1928 he was the Secretary to the Bombay Government Home Department.<ref name="BOOK"/> In the [[Indian general election, 1926#Members of Central Legislative Assembly|Indian General Election of 1926]] he was elected to the [[Central Legislative Assembly]].<ref name="BOOK"/>

He later served as the [[Dewan]] or [[List of Prime Ministers of Junagadh State|Prime Minister of Junagadh State]], a post he held from 1933–1939.<ref name="BOOK"/> Monteath was made a Companion of the [[Order of the Indian Empire]] in the [[1937 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34365 |date=29 January 1937 |page=693 |supplement=y}}</ref> He returned to England around the time of Indian Independence, and was living at [[Bury St Edmunds]].<ref name="BOOK"/> He died at [[Awliscombe]] in [[Devon]] in June 1955.

==References==
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==External links==
*{{cricinfo|id=31167}}

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[[Category:1878 births]]
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[[Category:Sportspeople from Bangor, County Down]]
[[Category:Ulster Scots people]]
[[Category:People educated at Clifton College]]
[[Category:Alumni of King's College, Cambridge]]
[[Category:Cricketers from County Down]]
[[Category:Indian Civil Service (British India) officers]]
[[Category:Irish cricketers]]
[[Category:Europeans cricketers]]
[[Category:Indian Political Service officers]]
[[Category:Postmasters general]]
[[Category:Members of the Central Legislative Assembly of India]]
[[Category:Prime ministers of Junagadh State]]
[[Category:Companions of the Order of the Indian Empire]]

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