Old Photograph Neil Munro Memorial Glen Aray Scotland

Old photograph of the Neil Munro memorial in Glen Aray near Inveraray, Scotland. Neil Munro, Scottish journalist, newspaper editor, author and literary critic, born 3 June 1863, died 22 December 1930, was the author of the famous " Para Handy " stories, he spent much of his time in Glen Aray when young and his mother came from a farm close to this point. He was born in Inveraray, the illegitimate son of Ann Munro, a kitchen maid; his death certificate gives his father's name as James Thompson Munro. He was brought up by his maternal grandparents and an aunt. He attended Glencaddie Primary School and Church Square Public School, leaving at 14. For five years he worked in the office of the Sheriff Clerk of Argyll, a fairly prestigious post which has led to speculation that he may have had undisclosed family connections. He then moved to Glasgow, and worked briefly in the cashier's office in an ironmonger's shop in the Trongate, before working as a journalist on the Greenock Advertiser, the Glasgow News, the Falkirk Herald and the Glasgow Evening News. He died in Craigendoran, Helensburgh on 22 December 1930.



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