From : "James Mountague (c1776–1853) was the younger son of William Mountague (d.1791), and, like his father, worked in the office of George Dance, the Surveyor to the City of London. In 1805 he was appointed as Surveyor and Superintendent of the City Canal and he subsequently moved to a house in Coldharbour. He became involved in local administration in the early 1810s and, with the support of the dock companies, was appointed treasurer of the Trustees empowered by the Improvement Act of 1813, presumably to counter the spendthrift tendencies of the locals. He was also chosen treasurer to the vestry on its creation in 1817 and was selected as the rector's churchwarden. A dominant figure in local affairs, Mountague retained his administrative positions until his death in 1853, although he left the parish following the Corporation's sale of the canal in 1828."
That page continues with a description of the houses built in Mountague Place, laid out by Mountague, on the southern edge of the grounds of All Saints church.
Mountague was Churchwarden and Treasurer of All Saints Poplar in 1823.
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