Stained glass of Dr Robert Munro FRSE in Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Robert Munro FRSE FSA LLD (21 July 1835 – 18 July 1920) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur archaeologist.

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's Munro Lectures in Archaeology and Anthropology are named in his honour.

Life

He was born on 21 July 1835 at

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in Rossshire, and educated at

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Free Church School, and at the Royal Academy in Tain. He studied Medicine at the

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graduating MA in 1860 and MB ChB in 1867. He worked as a General Practitioner in Kilmarnock until 1886, when he turned his whole attention to archaeological research. He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad and published several books on the subjects of his research. In 1891 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Rev John Duns, Sir Arthur Mitchell, Alexander Buchan and

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. He served as Vice President of the Society 1903 to 1908. In 1912 Munro began lecturing in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology at

. He died on 18 July 1920.

Family

In 1875 he married Anna Taylor (d.1907).

Publications

*''Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings or Crannogs'' (1882) *''The Lake Dwellings of Europe: being the Rhind Lectures in Archaeology for 1888'' (1890) *''Rambles and Studies in Bosnia, Herzegovina and Dalmatia, with an account of the Proceedings of the Congress of Archaeologists and Anthropologists held at Sarajevo, August 1894'' (1895) *''Prehistoric Problems: being a selection of essays on the evolution of man and other controverted problems in anthropology and archæology'' (1897) *''Prehistoric Scotland and its Place in European Civilisation'' (1899) *''Man as Artist and Sportsman in the Palæolithic Period'' (1903) *''Archaeology and False Antiquities'' (1905) *''The Munro Bequest'' (1910) *''Palæolithic Man and Terramara Settlements in Europe: Being the Munro Lectures in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archæology in Connection with the University of Edinburgh, Delivered During February and March 1912'' (1912) * *''From Darwinism to Kaiserism: being a review of the origin, effects and collapse of Germany's attempt at world-dominion by methods of barbarism'' (1919) *''Autobiographic Sketch of Robert Munro, M.A., M.D., LL.D., 21st July, 1835 - 18th July, 1920'' (1921) Munro wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, attributed by the initials "R. Mu". (, some of his works are in a Wikisource transcription project, available for reading, transcribing and editing.)

References

External links

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Works by Robert Munro at Archive.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Munro, Robert 1835 births 1920 deaths Amateur archaeologists Scottish archaeologists 19th-century Scottish medical doctors Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh