About Montague Ongley
Lived 1888 – 1976 (aged 87–88). Montague Ongley was a New Zealand geologist.
Montague Ongley (10 December 1888 – 6 March 1976) was a New Zealand geologist and scientific administrator. He was born in Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand in 1888 and received his education at Waitaki Boys' High School, where the rector pioneered the teaching of geology at secondary school level. Ongley studied geology at the University of Otago under Patrick Marshall.
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Who was Montague Ongley?
New Zealand geologist and scientific administrator (1888–1976)
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Montague Ongley was born in 1888 in Oamaru.
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Montague Ongley died in 1976.
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Montague Ongley was a geologist.
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