Mr. Russell Monro 



1868, when he took his degree, besides rowing in his College 

 eight, he won for three years running his College pairs with 

 Sir Paget Bowman, who was bow of the 'Varsity eight two 

 successive winning years. 



He also won the 'Varsity Boxing Competition in 1868 for 

 Middle-Weights under eleven stone, after a very keen contest, 

 there being some thirteen or fourteen competitors to defeat. 



Coming of the very ancient family of the Monros of 

 Fowlis, Ross-shire, he traces his descent in a direct line from 

 Donald Monro, who, according to the manuscript in the British 

 Museum, came to Scotland from Ireland a.d. 1025 to render 

 assistance to Malcolm II., King of Scots, against the Danish 

 invasion. 



Mr. Russell Monro married, September 3rd, 1878, Emily 

 Julia, third daughter of Sir George Nugent, Bart, and the 

 Hon. Maria Charlotte Ridley-Colborne, daughter of Nicholas 

 William, Baron Colborne. 



For many years he was a partner in the Brewery at York, 

 from which he retired in 1889, and has since resided in 

 Leicestershire, his home being Somerby Hall, near Oakham. 

 A director of several companies in London, he has also 

 interested himself during the last twenty years in American 

 industrial enterprises, many of which have proved successful 

 ventures and yielded excellent returns to investors. 



Devoted all his life to sport, he has been in his time a 

 successful rider between the flags, and is himself a breeder of 

 horses. 



As a hunting man he was blooded in i860 with the Isle of 

 Wight Hounds, and whilst at Oxford was whip to the Drag 

 Hounds during Lord Lansdowne's Mastership, and was also 

 a constant follower with the Bicester, Heythrop, and South 

 Oxfordshire Hunts. 



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