page_title: Alexander Monro (tertius)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Alexander Monro (tertius) / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: 1 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh
context_page_description: Alexander Monro tertius of Craiglockhart, FRSE FRCPE FSA MWS, was a Scottish anatomist and medical educator at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. According to his detractors, Monro was an uninspired anatomist who did not compare with his brilliant father or grandfather as a teacher or scientist. His students included Charles Darwin who asserted that Monro "made his lectures on human anatomy as dull as he was himself."
context_section_description: He is known as "tertius" because his two predecessors as professor of anatomy at Edinburgh University had the same name: these were his grandfather (after death referred to as Alexander Monro primus) and his father (known as Alexander Monro secundus). Alexander's great-grandfather, John Munro, was an Edinburgh surgeon who had played a leading role in the founding of the Edinburgh Medical School. His uncle was Dr Donald Monro FRSE who became a military physician in London.
  He married twice: firstly, in 1800, to Maria Agnes Carmichael-Smyth (1776-1833), the daughter of Dr. Carmichael-Smyth, by whom he had twelve children; and secondly, in 1836, to the daughter of David Hunter. The latter survived him.
  In the 1830s he was living, with his large family and first wife, at 1 Great Stuart Street on the Moray Estate in Edinburgh's west end. The house stands on a prominent corner partly facing the gardens of Moray Place. Monro's neighbour (at 3 Great Stuart Street) was Dr Robert Christison.
  His son Sir David Monro made a career as a politician in New Zealand, and was the second Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives.
  His daughter, Maria Monro, married John Inglis advocate (1783-1847) son of Admiral John Inglis. Their grandchildren included John Alexander Inglis.
  His daughter Catherine Monro was the first wife of John James Stuart of Allanbank.
caption: 1 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh
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