Alexander Binning Monro, of Auchenbowie

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[Alexander Binning Monro] «i»Second son of David Monro Binning (1776-1843) & Sophia Home, was born 22 (or 8 or 28?) May 1805; admitted W.S. 5 March 1829 but did not practise; suc. to Auchinbowie 1835 on grandmother's death & adopted surname Binning Monro; exhibited at Royal Scottish Academy; took Sophia as heir of entail on death of brother George 1884 & d. Oxford 12 December 1891, having m. 1835 cousin Harriet (d. 1893) dr. of Prof. Alex Monro (Tertius) with issue - David (1836-1905), Alexander (b. 1838), George Home (1840-85), Charles Carmichael (b. 1851) & 2 drs; 3 sons (James, Robert, & John) d. inf.

John A. Inglis, The Monros of Auchinbowie, pp. 123-5; Mackenzie pp. 319-21; F.J. Grant, W.S. Society, p. 78; R.E. Wright-St.Clair, Doctors Monro, pp. 92, 121-2; The Royal Scottish Academy 1826-1916, (1917), p.----; Sir J.B. Paul, History Royal Company of Archers, p. 379 - adm 1828; St. Ninian's Monument Inscription.
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Alexander married Harriet Monro on 4 Aug 1835. Harriet (daughter of Dr. Alexander Monro, of Craiglockhart and Maria Agnes Carmichael-Smyth) was born about 1821; died in 1893. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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VII. DAVID BINNING MONRO, M.A., Fellow and Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, born on the 16th of November, 1836, and still unmarried.

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2. Alexander, born on the 12th of April, 1838. He emigrated to New Zealand, where on the 8th of March, 1862, he married Elizabeth, daughter of Captain Cotterell of the Royal Navy, with issue--...

Alexander the elder married secondly, in 1894, Annie Peel.

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[Alexander Monro] «i»Second son of Alexander Binning Monro (1805-91), was born 12 April 1838 & emigrated to New Zealand*; on brother David's death in 1905 suc. to Sophia as heir of entail, & took surname Binning Monro; d. 24 November 1918 having m. (1st) 1862 Elizabeth Cotterell (d. '76) with issue - George Home (b. 1865), Alexander Edward (b. 1867, d. 1956), Herbert David (b. 1869), Henry Charles (b. 1874) & 3 drs.; (2nd) 1895 Annie Frances Peel. *Settled in Melborough & represented Wairan in Melborough Provincial Council, 1869-70.

John A. Inglis, The Monros of Auchinbowie, p. 124; Mackenzie, p. 320; Scholefield, Dictionary of New Zealand Biographies (1940); R.E. Wright-St.Clair, Doctors Monro, pp. 122, 155, 159; Clan Munro Magazine xi 10.
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Alexander married Elizabeth Cottrell in 1862. Elizabeth was born about 1840; died in 1876. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Alexander married Annie Frances Peel in 1894. Annie was born about 1840; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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3. George Home Monro, born on the 28th of November, 1840, and emigrated with his brother Alexander to New Zealand about 1862, where on the 27th of March, 1873, he married Isabella Selina, youngest daughter of William Wrothsley Baldwin of Stedehill, Harietham, Kent, with issue--1, Alexander William; 2, Charles George; 3, George Home; 4, Eliza; and 5, Jane. He died in New Zealand in 1885

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George married Isabella Selina Baldwin on 27 Mar 1873 in , , , New Zealand. Isabella was born about 1842; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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5. Maria Agnes, who in 1874, married colonel I. P. Waterman, without issue. He died in 1877.

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Maria married I. P. Waterman in 1874. I. was born est 1841; died in 1877. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James died in infancy.

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321

6. Jane Sophia, who died, unmarried, in 1887.

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Died:
Robert died in infancy.

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320

4. Charles Carmichael Binning Monro, now of Hazlegrove, Haslemere, Hampshire, who was born on the 1st December, 1851, and is still unmarried.

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John died in infancy.

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320

1, George Home Monro-Home, who was born in New Zealand on the 29th of November, 1865, and in 1875, came to this country, with his brother, Alexander Edward, to be educated. He studied in the University of Edinburgh for the medical profession, and graduated M.B. in 1890. He is now practising in Liverpool, and is still unmarried. As already stated, he succeeded to the estate of Argaty on the death of his grand-uncle's widow on the 14th of August, 1895.

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2, Alexander Edward, born on the 16th of May, 1867, B.A. of Cambridge in 1889. He is now Naval Instructor, R.N., serving in the Mediterranean Squadron, and still unmarried;

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[Alexander Monro] «i»Second son of Alexander Binning Monro (b. 1838), was born New Zealand 16 May 1867, came to Britain 1875, educated King William's College, 1oM, & St. John's College, Cambridge, BA (11th Wrangler) 1889; Naval Instructor, R.N., sometime with Mediterranean Squadron, reaching rank of Instr. Capt., 31 December 1921; retired, & lived at Mannabutts House, Tavistock, Devon; d. Northants, 12 October 1956; m. 1918 Sylvia Grace Alice Templer Dew (d. 1954), with issue - Peter Alexander George (b. 1919), Rosemary Dew (m. ----McNair); Fiona, & Juliet (m. ---Chamberlain).

Mackenzie p. 320; John A. Inglis, The Monros of Auchinbowie, p. 124; Burke's Landed Gentry (1939); Navy List; Times, 15 & 17 October 1956; R.E. Wright-St. Clair, Doctors Monro, p. 159.
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Alexander married Sylvia Grace Alice Templer Dew in 1918. Sylvia was born about 1869; died in 1954. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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320

Herbert David, born on the 28th of December, 1869, and residing in Australia, unmarried;

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6, Harriet Sophia;

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7, Mary, who died in infancy, in 1872.

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4, Henry Cottrell, born on the 6th of September, 1874, now residing in New Zealand, unmarried.

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5, Elizabeth Maria, who in 1893, married H. F. Turner, eldest son of Major Turner, Patea, New Zealand, with issue--...

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Elizabeth married H. F. Turner in 1893 in Patea, New Zealand. H. was born est 1874; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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[Alexander William Monro] «i»Eldest son of George Home (Binning) Monro (1840-85) and Isabella Selina Baldwin; b. New Zealand 14 March 1875; educ. Radley; suc. to Auchinbowie on death of uncle David in 1905, sold it to cousin Major George Nowlan Monro 1910; Board of Agriculture inspector from 1899, principally for business under Food & Drugs & Fertilizers Acts; private secretary to successive Presidents of Ministry Agriculture & Fisheries 1915-19; Principal Clerk 1919; C.B. 1919; d. (result of an accident) in hospital 28 April 1960 (funeral in Norfolk), having m. 1910 Geraldine Marion Murray-Johnson, with issue - David (1912-14), Neil (b. 1915) & 1 dr. Jean (b. 1916)

John A. Inglis, The Monros of Auchinbowie, pp. 124-5, 127; Mackenzie, p. 320; Canon Horace Granville Monroe, Foulis Castle & Monroes of Lower Iveagh, p. 16; Who's Who (1945, 1957 etc.); Times, 4 & 23 May 1960; Burke's Landed Gentry (1937), pp. 1617-18; R.E. Wright-St. Clair, Doctors Monro, pp. 121, 122.
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Alexander married Geraldine Marion Murray-Johnson in 1910. Geraldine was born est 1877; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George Noel, born on the 4th of December, 1893;

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