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 growing close to the head. The lines round the mouth were strongly marked and the lips tightly compressed. The general expression of his face was that of strength and benignity. It is unfortunate that no adequate idea of his living presence can be gained from the two posthumous busts at Cambridge.

Munro's published books are:
 * 1) ‘Lucretius’ (text), 1 vol. 1860.
 * 2) ‘Lucretius’ (text, commentary, and translation), 2 vols. 1864; 4th and final edition, 3 vols. 1886.
 * 3) ‘Ætna’ (text and commentary), 1 vol. 1867.
 * 4) ‘Horace’ (text, with introduction), 1 vol. 1869.
 * 5) ‘The Pronunciation of Latin,’ a pamphlet, 1871.
 * 6) ‘Criticisms and Elucidations of Catullus,’ 1 vol. 1878.
 * 7) ‘Translations into Latin and Greek Verse,’ 1 vol. 1884 (privately printed).

His chief papers in learned journals are:
 * 1) ‘Cambridge Philosophical Society's Transactions,’ x. 374-408, a Latin inscription at Cirta.
 * 2) ‘Journal of Sacred and Classical Philology,’ i. 21-46, 252-8, 372-8, ‘Lucretius;’ ii. 58-81, ‘Aristotle;’ iv. 121-45, ‘Lucretius.’
 * 3) ‘Journal of Philology,’ i. 113-45, ‘Lucretius;’ ii. 1-33, ‘Catullus;’ iii. 115-28, ‘Lucretius;’ iv. 120-6, and 243-251, ‘Lucretius;’ pp. 231-43, ‘Catullus;’ v. 301-7, ‘Catullus;’ vi. 28-70, ‘Propertius;’ vii. 293-314, and viii. 201-26, ‘Lucilius;’ x. 233-53, ‘Fragments of Euripides.’



MUNRO, INNES (d. 1827) of Poyntzfield, Cromarty, N.B., lieutenant-colonel and author, was related to Sir of Novar [q. v.] He was appointed on 29 Dec. 1777 to a lieutenancy in the 73rd, afterwards 71st, highlanders, then raised by Lord Macleod [see ]. As lieutenant and captain in the first battalion of that regiment he made the campaigns of 1780-4 against Hyder Ali, which he afterwards described, and at the close was placed on half-pay as a captain of the disbanded second battalion of the regiment. On 8 July 1793 he was brought on full pay as captain in the Scottish brigade (disbanded as the 94th foot in 1818). He belonged to that regiment until 1808, when he left the army as major and brevet lieutenant-colonel. He had served for many years as paymaster of a recruiting district. Munro, who had married Ann, daughter of George Gordon, minister of Clyne, died at Poyntzfield in 1827. He published ‘A Narrative of the Military Operations in the Carnatic in 1780-4,’ London, 1789, 4to, and ‘A System of Farm Bookkeeping based on Actual Practice,’ Edinburgh, 1821. Donaldson says of the latter: ‘It is the most complex idea that has ever been published. It may amuse the gentleman, but would never suit the farmer’ (Agricultural Biog. p. 113).



MUNRO, THOMAS (1761–1827), major-general, baronet, K.C.B., governor of Madras, was the son of Alexander Munro, a Glasgow merchant trading with Virginia. He was born on 27 May 1761, and educated at the grammar school and at the university of Glasgow. He appears not to have been particularly studious at school, but was an adept at all athletic sports, a good swimmer and boxer. At the university he developed a taste for reading, history—especially military history—mathematics, and chemistry being his favourite subjects. He also studied political economy, and the French, Italian, and Spanish languages. He began the business of life in a mercantile firm at Glasgow, but, owing to family reverses, was compelled to accept an appointment in the mercantile marine service of the East India Company, which, however, he never joined, having been appointed a cadet of infantry at Madras, where he arrived on 15 Jan. 1780. A few months after his arrival in India the regiment to which he was attached formed part of the force sent against Hyder Ali, and he was present at all the operations under Sir [q. v.] and Sir [q. v.] in 1780 and the three following years. He early attracted the notice of Coote, who appointed him quartermaster of a brigade when he was still an officer of less than two years' service. In August 1788 he was appointed to the intelligence department under Captain Read, and served in most of the operations under Lord Cornwallis, including the siege and capture of Bangalore. Some of the letters which he wrote during these years to his father, describing the military operations, are quoted by Wilson in his annotations to Mill's ‘History of British India’ as embodying the most accurate accounts available of some of the engagements with Hyder Ali. He also in those early days formed very clear views on the political situation, recognising the paramount importance of subverting the powerful and dangerous government which Hyder had founded in Mysore, the strength of which he deemed to be far more formidable than that of the Mahrattas. He was also an attentive observer of European affairs and of the French revolution, which he regarded as fraught with danger to the maintenance of British