page_title: Munro of Auchinbowie
section_title: Alexander Monro tertius
hierarchical_section_title: Munro of Auchinbowie / Alexander Monro tertius
caption_attribution_description: Scottish physician Alexander Monro (tertius). 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: Alexander Monro tertius followed his father and grandfather in becoming professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh. Amongst his publications are Outlines of the Anatomy of the Human Body (1811) in four volumes and "Elements of Anatomy" (1825) in two volumes. He was Secretary of the Royal College of Physicians from 1809 to 1819 and President in 1827 and 1828. He was also on the Council of the Wernerian Natural History Society of which he became a member in 1811. He had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1798 and at his death was father of the Society. He had 12 children:
  Alexander Monro (1803–1867), was a Captain in the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own), married Elizabeth, daughter of C. B Scott of Woll.
  James Monro (1806–1870), was a Surgeon-Major in the Coldstream Guards, married Maria, daughter of Colonel Duffin.
  Henry Monro (1810–1869), married Jane Christie. One of their sons was Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet
  Sir David Monro (1813–1877), married Dinah, daughter of John Secker. They had five sons including Charles John Monro.
  William Munro (1815–1881), a Major in the 79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Abercromby, 5th Baronet.
  Charles Monro (1818–1820).
  Maria Monro (1801–1884), married John Inglis of Auchinderry and Redhall.
  Catherine Monro (1804–1868), married Sir John James Steuart of Allanbank.
  Georgiana Monro (1808–1868), married George Skene of Rubislaw.
  Harriet Monro (1816 - 1898), married her cousin Alex Binning Monro who was a descendant of John Monro, 5th of Auchinbowie, their son David Binning Monro was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
  Isabella Monro (1819–1908)
  Charlotte Monro (1821–1908), married Henry Fletcher.
caption: Alexander Monro tertius
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