Thomas Kirkpatrick Monro (1865 – 10 January 1958) was

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at the

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. He was director of Glasgow Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital, professor of medicine and dean of the Medical Faculty at

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, senior editor of the ''

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'', and governor of the

Royal Technical College The Royal College of Science and Technology was a higher education college that existed in Glasgow, Scotland between 1887 and 1964. Tracing its history back to the Andersonian Institute (founded in 1796), it is the direct predecessor instituti ...

. He also served as a major in the

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.Thomas Monro.
University of Glasgow. Retrieved 20 November 2018. Monro was also an avid

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and book-collector who amassed an almost complete collection of

Sir Thomas Browne Sir Thomas Browne ( "brown"; 19 October 160519 October 1682) was an English polymath and author of varied works which reveal his wide learning in diverse fields including science and medicine, religion and the esoteric. His writings display a d ...

and served as the President of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society. The Monro Collection is now held in the special collections of the University of Glasgow Library.

Selected publications

* ''History of the Chronic Degenerative Diseases of the Central Nervous System'' (1895). * ''Manual of Medicine'' (1903). * ''The Early Editions of Sir Thomas Browne'' (Records of the Glasgow Bibliographical Society, vol. 7, 1918-1920). * ''The Physician as a Man of Letters, Science and Action'' (1933).

References

External links

Glasgow University Library Special Collections department blogpost on the Monro Collection.
1865 births 1958 deaths People from Arbroath 19th-century Scottish medical doctors 20th-century Scottish medical doctors Scottish bibliophiles Royal Army Medical Corps officers {{Scotland-med-bio-stub