Robert Munro FRSE FSA LLD (21 July 1835 – 18 July 1920) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur archaeologist.[1]
Edinburgh University's Munro Lectures in Archaeology and Anthropology are named in his honour.[2]
He was born on 21 July 1835 at Assynt in Rossshire, and educated at Kiltearn Free Church School, and at the Royal Academy in Tain.[3] He studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1860 and MB ChB in 1867.[3] He worked as a General Practitioner in Kilmarnock until 1886, when he turned his whole attention to archaeological research.[4] He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad and published several books on the subjects of his research.[4]
In 1891 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[3] His proposers were Rev John Duns, Sir Arthur Mitchell, Alexander Buchan and Ramsay Heatley Traquair.[3] He served as Vice President of the Society 1903 to 1908.[3] In 1894 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh.[5][6]
In 1912 Munro began lecturing in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University.[3]
He died on 18 July 1920.[3]
In 1875 he married Anna Taylor (d.1907).[3]
Munro wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, attributed by the initials "R. Mu".[16]