Robert Munro FRSE FSA LLD (21 July 1835 – 18 July 1920) was a Scottish physician and noted amateur archaeologist. Edinburgh University's Munro Lectures in Archaeology and Anthropology are named in his honour.

Life

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. He studied Medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating MA in 1860 and MB ChB in 1867. He worked as a General Practitioner in Kilmarnock until 1886, when he turned his whole attention to archaeological research. He was a member of many learned societies at home and abroad and published several books on the subjects of his research. In 1891 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Rev John Duns, Sir Arthur Mitchell, Alexander Buchan and Ramsay Heatley Traquair. He served as Vice President of the Society 1903 to 1908. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Harveian Society of Edinburgh. In 1912 Munro began lecturing in Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University. He died on 18 July 1920.

Family

In 1875 he married Anna Taylor (d.1907).

Publications

Munro wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, attributed by the initials "R. Mu".