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Clan Munro USA
Genealogy Pages
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 1903 - 1985 (82 years)
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| Name |
Alexander Graham Munro [1] |
| Born |
1903 |
Mid Calder, , Midlothian, Scotland  |
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Male |
| Died |
1985 |
| Person ID |
I60592 |
Munro |
| Last Modified |
24 Jan 2010 |
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| Notes |
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[Alexander Graham Munro] «i»b. Mid Calder 1903; educ. George Heriot's School, art training at Edinburgh College of Art & R.S.A. School, won Carnegie Travelling Scholarship 1925; studied in Paris under Billoull & Lhote, & art master at Loretto Glenalmond; travelled through France, Italy, & North Africa, being held captive in an Arab prison in the Atlas Mountains; from 1932 exhibtitedin Society of Scottish Artists, R.S.A. & Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts exhibitions, & Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours; worked as illustrator for Thomas Waldon (publishers), Edinburgh, member of council, R.S.S.W., 1963-4; R.S.W. 1960; m. 1932 Ruth F. Morwood (artist).
Contemporary Scots Art (Scots Observer 1932), p.29; R.S.W. Catalogue (1946); Glenalmond Reg. (1955), p. lv - 'visiting art master' 1941-6 - also Loretto; Scotsman, 28 October 1963, August 1985; Clan Munro Magazine ix 20; Edinburgh College of Art exhibition, August 1984; Hahlon & Harris, List of Scottish Painters (1997), p. 163.
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(R. W. Munro's genealogy notes)
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Compiled and edited by Allen Alger, Genealogist, Clan Munro Association, USA
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- [S668] RW Munro's Genealogy Database, Robert William Munro, (The collected genealogy notes of RW Munro, Hon. Historian of Clan Munro (Association) edited by Dr. Jean Munro, transcribed by Charles C. Munroe, III and others. Transcription completed Jan 2009. Original card file is kept at the "Storehouse of Foulis" near Foulis Castle in Scotland.), card 307 (Reliability: 3).
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