MUNRO, Donald. b. 1832; merchant and manufacturer Whitechapel road, London; member of Metropolitan board of works for Whitechapel 4 Oct. 1875 to death. d. Whitehall, Chigwell row, Essex 18 May 1888.
MUNRO, Sir George Gun (son of col. Innes Munro of Poyntzfield, co. Cromarty). b. 1788; served in Indian army; lieut. governor of St. Mawes castle, Cornwall; knighted at St. James’s palace 13 April 1842. d. 16 Sept. 1852.
MUNRO, Hugh Andrew Johnstone (natural son of H. A. J. Munro of Novar, Rossshire). b. Elgin 19 Oct. 1819; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Camb., scholar 1840, fellow 1843 to death; univ. Craven scholar 1841; second classic and first chancellor’s medallist 1842; B.A. 1842, M.A. 1845; hon. D.C.L. Oxf. 1873; Kennedy professor of Latin at Cambridge June 1869, resigned Nov. 1872; one of the greatest Latin scholars of his time; published Lucretius (text 1860); Titi Lucretii cari de rerum natura libri sex, the text revised, 2 vols. 1864, 4 ed. 3 vols. 1886; Aetna revised and explained 1867; Q. Horatii Flacci, opera, the text revised 1867; The pronunciation of Latin 1871; Criticisms and elucidations of Catullus 1878; and with E. Palmer, Syllabus of Latin pronunciation 1872; formed a large collection of ancient and modern paintings. d. Rome 30 March 1885. bur. in protestant cemet., memorial brasses in Trinity coll. chapel and Elgin academy. Saturday Review lix 472; Waagen’s Treasures of art ii 131–42 (1854).
MUNRO OR McKENZIE, Janet. Remembered the battle of Culloden 1746; became a widow in 1809; a staunch Jacobite all her life, and doubtless the last individual in the British dominions who conscientiously believed that queen Victoria held the crown by an unlawful tenure. d. Alness in Rossshire 18 April 1852, aged at least 110 years. bur. Roskeen 19 April. Times 15 May 1852 p. 8.
MUNRO, John (youngest son of James Munro lieut. R.N. of Teaninich, co. Ross, d. May 1788). b. June 1778; entered Madras army 1790; captain Madras European regiment 24 Dec. 1800, major 1811 to 1818; Q.M.G. Madras 1806–12; colonel of 31 N.I. 5 June 1829 to 2 Oct. 1842; colonel 4 Madras native infantry 2 Oct. 1842 to death; general 20 June 1854. d. Muirtown house, Inverness 26 Jany. 1858.
MUNRO, William (eld. son of Wm. Munro of Druid’s Stoke, Gloucs.). b. 1818; ensign 39 foot 20 Jany. 1834, lieutenant colonel 11 Nov. 1853; severely wounded at battle of Maharajpore 24 Dec. 1843; commanded his regiment at siege of Sebastopol 1855, and in Canada and Bermuda; retired on h.p. 19 Dec. 1865; commanded the troops in Windward and Leeward islands 1870 to 1875; col. of 93 highlanders 11 Oct. 1876 to death; general 25 June 1878; C.B. 2 Jany. 1857; the best authority on subject of grasses; author of A monograph on the bamboos in the Transactions of the Linnaen Society; On antidotes to snake-bites in Journal of Agricultural Society of India vi 1–23 (1848) and other papers. d. Monty court near Taunton 29 Jany. 1880.
MUNROE, Kate, stage name of Katherine Lister (dau. of Dr. Lister). b. New York 1848; studied singing at Milan 1869; sang in grand opera at Milan, Naples, and other Italian cities 1870–3, when her voice failed; appeared as Catherine in the Love Apple at the Gaiety, London 24 Sept. 1874; at the Holborn as Mdlle. Lange and the Prince; at the Philharmonic in The Bohemian Girl and in Madame Angot; at the Alhambra in Chilperic from 10 May 1875 for 83 nights, in Spectresheim 14 Aug. 1875 for 100 nights, and in La voyage de la lune 15 April 1876 for 100 nights; she appeared in revivals of Le roi Carotte and The Black Crook at the Alhambra; the original Serpolette in Les cloches de Corneville at Folly theatre 23 Feb. 1878; played in Les deux nababs at Théatre des nouveautés and in La marquise des Roues at the Bouffes Parisiens, Paris in 1878–9; toured in America 1879–82; acted Isabella in Boccacio at the Comedy 22 April 1882; the heroine in the Merry Duchess at the Royalty 23 April 1883; Javotte in Erminie at Comedy theatre 9 Nov. 1885, and Gretchen in Mynheer Jan at Comedy 14 Feb. 1887; m. 1886 Mr. Miles. d. from atrophy of the liver 90 Regent street, London 17 Oct. 1887, body embalmed, sent to New York and bur. in Woodburn cemetery, will proved 17 Dec. 1887 exceeding £18,000. Pascoe’s Dramatic list (1880) 267; Illust. S. & D. News v 321, 327 (1876) portrait; The Theatre ii 169, 208 (1883) portrait.
MUNSEY, Thomas Alexander Augustus. b. 1806; entered Madras army 1823; lieut. 1 Madras light cavalry 8 June 1825, lieut. col. 7 Nov. 1847 to 1850; lieut. col. of 8 Madras light cavalry 1850–1, of 3 light cavalry 1851–6, of 6 light cavalry 1856–8, and of 7 light cavalry 20 July 1858–9; col. of 4 Madras light cavalry 30 May 1859–60; col. of 8 light cavalry 1860 to death; M.G. 11 Sept. 1859. d. Brighton 23 Jany. 1867.
MUNSIE, William. b. Glasgow 1801; assistant in Dr. Angus’ school till 1824; opened an academy in Glasgow 1824, where he educated with success a large number of pupils; trained a class of teachers for the Free church 1842–64; president of Sabbath school union 1850; author of Evangelical training, in lessons on some of the names of the Lord Jesus, 3 ed. 1849, 4 ed. 1860; editor of Glasgow Sabbath school union magazine 1856–64. d. Glasgow 1864. Maclehose’s Glasgow men ii 235–6 (1886) portrait.
MUNSTER, Henry (only son of Frederick Munster of Port Royal, Jamaica). b. 1824; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb.; coxswain of the Cambridge boat in the first university match over the Putney to Mortlake course 15 March 1845, also in the grand challenge cup race against Oxford at Henley 1845; barrister L.I. 12 May 1848; B.A. Camb. 1858. d. Novington manor, Plumpton, near Lewes 11 April 1894.