page_title: Munro of Auchinbowie
section_title: Alexander Monro primus
hierarchical_section_title: Munro of Auchinbowie / Alexander Monro primus
caption_attribution_description: English: Scottish physician Alexander Monro (primus). From the University of Otago Library Monro collection.
context_page_description: The Munros of Auchinbowie are a distinguished branch of the Scottish, highland Clan Munro. From this family three Professors of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland were produced, as well as several other doctors and military officers.
context_section_description: Although George Munro, 3rd of Auchinbowie had male heirs as mentioned above, he sold the Auchinbowie property to a cousin, Alexander Monro (primus) who was the son of John Monro (surgeon), who was in turn a younger brother of George Munro, 1st of Auchinbowie. Alexander Monro primus was the foundation Professor of Anatomy at the Edinburgh Medical School.  He was appointed lecturer on Anatomy by the Incorporation of Surgeons, later the Royal College of Surgeons, at Edinburgh in 1719; the following year he became professor, and in 1725 was appointed the first Professor of Anatomy to the University. He was a principal promoter and early clinical lecturer in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Alexander Monro primus had six children:
  John Monro, 5th of Auchinbowie, advocate, born 5 November 1725 and married Sophia, eldest daughter of Archibald Inglis of Auchindinny. He died in May 1789.
  Dr Donald Monro (1728–1802), married Dorothea Maria Heineken.
  Jean Monro (1729–1731).
  Mary Monro - born 1730.
  Alexander Monro (secundus), 1st of Craiglockhart and Cockburn. (1733–1817)
  Margaret Monro (1757–1802).
caption: Alexander Monro primus, 4th of Auchinbowie
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