MONTROSE, CHARLES OTTO (1840-1907) was born in Kent and served for some years in the Royal Navy, being present at Sebastopol. He then spent nine years in the army, rising to the rank of regimental-sergeant major of the 40th Regiment, with which he came to New Zealand in 1860. He was at Mahoetahi and other engagements, and in 1869 retired from the army and engaged in journalism. He was sub-editor of the Auckland Star, and editor and part proprietor of the Auckland Observer. He founded a newspaper at Cambridge and was the author of some of the letterpress of Picturesque New Zealand (1886). Montrose wrote much of the history of New Zealand for serial publication in the New Zealand Herald in 1893, and spent the last years of his life as a parliamentary correspondent. He died on 9 Aug 1907.

Evening Post and N.Z. Times, 10 Aug 1907.

Reference: Volume 2, page 50

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