Tour Scotland video of the Alexander Monro gravestone on ancestry visit to Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Alexander of Craiglockhart, born on the 5th of November 1773, died on the 10th of March 1859, was a Scottish surgeon, anatomist and medical educator at Edinburgh Medical College. One of the Burke and Hare murderers, William Burke, was hanged on 28th of January 1829, after which he was famously dissected at the Edinburgh Medical College by Alexander Monro himself. In a letter, Monro dipped his quill pen into Burke's blood and wrote, " This is written with the blood of William Burke, who was hanged at Edinburgh. This blood was taken from his head. "
Clan Munro is a Highland Scottish clan. Historically the clan was based in Easter Ross in the Scottish Highlands. Traditional origins of the clan give its founder as Donald Munro who came from the north of Ireland and settled in Scotland in the eleventh century. It is also a strong tradition that the Munro chiefs supported Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Scottish Independence. The first proven clan chief on record is Robert de Munro who died in 1369. The clan chiefs have always been seated at Foulis Castle. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the Munros feuded with their neighbours the Clan Mackenzie, and during the seventeenth century many Munros fought in the Thirty Years' War in support of Protestantism. During the Scottish Civil War of the seventeenth century different members of the clan supported the Royalists and Covenanters at different times. The Munro chiefs supported the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and during the Jacobite risings of the eighteenth century the clan and the chiefs were staunchly anti Jacobite, supporting the Hanoverian-British Government.
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