David Monro (ca. 1765 – September 3, 1834) was a

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, businessman and political figure in

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. His surname was also sometimes spelled Munro.

Life

He was born around 1765 in

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. The date of his arrival at

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is not known but, in 1791, he was involved in administering the dissolving of a partnership between Alexander Davison and John Lees. Monro later became partners with Mathew Bell and, with George Davison, they purchased the Saint-Maurice ironworks in 1793. George Davison died in 1799, which left Monro and Bell the sole owners of the ironworks at Saint-Maurice. In 1804, he was elected to the

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for Saint-Maurice and generally supported the English party. In 1807, Munro married Catherine MacKenzie, who was the sister of Mathew Bell's wife. He helped found the Quebec Committee of Trade in 1809. He also served in the local militia, becoming major in 1813. Monro served as justice of the peace for Trois-Rivières and Quebec districts. He was a member of the management committee of the Union Company of Quebec, which operated the Union Hotel at Quebec. Monro retired from the business in 1816, selling his share to Bell. In 1817, he bought the seigneury of Champlain with Bell. He was offered a seat on the Legislative Council in that same year but declined as he was planning to leave the province. Monro died at

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in 1834.

Family

Monro's daughter Margaret married

Thomas Levett Thomas Levett (1594 – ca. 1655), was an Oxford-educated Lincoln's Inn barrister, judge of the Admiralty for the Northern Counties and High Sheriff of Rutland. But Levett's chief accomplishment was as antiquarian, preserving a centuries-old char ...

, of

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, Staffordshire, in 1831, three years before Monro's death. (Levett later hyphenated his last name to Levett-Prinsep, and inherited

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, Derbyshire, a holding of his uncle Thomas Prinsep's family.)After the death of his wife, the former Margaret Monro, Thomas Levett-Prinsep married as his second wife Caroline Mary Templer, daughter of Rev. John James Temple

of

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, Devonshire, the rector of

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and a member of the Templer family who owned Stover House and the 80,000-acre Stover Estate in Devon, later sold due to Templer family financial troubles to

Edward St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset Edward Adolphus St Maur, 11th Duke of Somerset (né Seymour; 24 February 1775 – 15 August 1855), styled Lord Seymour until 1793, of Maiden Bradley in Wiltshire and Stover House, Teigngrace, Devon, was a British peer, landowner, astrolog ...

. Rev. Templer's daughter Henrietta was married to Thomas Levett-Prinsep's brother Theophilus Levett. The son of Theophilus Levett later lived at his 'Colehays' estate near

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, which his son Major Edward Levett sold in 191

That same year Monro's daughter Helen married

Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet Sir Edmund Filmer, 8th Baronet (14 June 1809 – 8 January 1857) was an English Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party politician. Life He was the son of Edmund Filmer, a younger son of Sir Edmund Filmer, 6th Baronet, and his wife Emelia Sk ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Monro, David 1760s births 1834 deaths Members of the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada 18th-century Canadian merchants Scottish emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec Immigrants to the Province of Quebec (1763–1791)