John Eglinton Montgomerie

Admiral John Eglinton Montgomerie, CB (23 December 1825 – 10 September 1902) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer.

Montgomerie was born in 1825, the son of William Eglinton Montgomerie (1789–1852) by his wife Susanna Fraser Anderson (d. 1884). His father was from the Clan Montgomery, and a paternal descendant of Alexander Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton (1588–1661).

He entered the Royal Navy in 1840, and served in China during the Second Opium War, for which he received the Second China War Medal. He was Naval Aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria 1876 to 1878, became vice-admiral in 1884 and retired as admiral.

He held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant (DL) and Justice of the Peace (JP) for Ayrshire, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB).

He died unmarried at Newfield, Kilmarnock on 10 September 1902.