work, has repaid the compliment by naming after him a community hall, a street and a square. His birthplace in Irvine was renamed Montgomery House after he had paid the town a return visit in 1841, but it has since been demolished. Other worksPoetical Works, four editions in 1821, 1836, 1841, and 1854 Editor: The Chimney-Sweeper's Friend and Climbing-Boy's Album, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824 Editor: The Christian Psalmist; or, Hymns, Selected and Original, Glasgow: Chalmers and Collins, 1825. sixth edn. 1829; Read Books, 2008, Editor: The Christian poet; or, selections in verse on sacred subjects, Wm Collins, Glasgow, 1825An Essay on the Phrenology of the Hindoos and Negroes, London: Printed for E. Lloyd, 1829Original Hymns For Public, Private, and Social Devotion, London: Longman, Brown, Green, 1853Prose by a Poet'', 2 vols, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824 References External links The 1854 illustrated edition of Montgomery's poems John Holland and James Everett, Memoirs of the life and writings of James Montgomery: including selections from his correspondence, remains in prose and verse, and conversations on various subjects, London, 1855 James Montgomery Collection. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. 1771 births 1854 deaths History of Sheffield Burials at Sheffield General Cemetery Christian hymnwriters Writers of the Moravian Church British people of the Moravian Church People educated at Fulneck School Hymnal editors