Arthur Munro Explained

John Arthur Ruskin Munro (1864–1944) was the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford.^[1]

J. A. R. Munro was the son of the Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Alexander Munro.^[2] He was educated at Charterhouse School in southern England, as was his younger brother Henry Acland Munro.^[3]

Munro was an archaeologist, a historian and a teacher. There is a collection of his lectures, on ancient Greece and on the history of Athens, in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts, the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MSS. Eng. misc. d. 642-643).

Munro left artworks to the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.^[4]

Books

• William Cliffe Foley Anderson, Francis John Haverfield, Joseph Grafton Milne, and John Arthur Ruskin Munro, On the Roman town of Doclea in Montenegro.

Notes and References

1. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=63879#s5 Rectors
2. http://www.preraphaelites.org/the-collection/1959p11/the-long-engagement-compositional-sketch-and-sketch-of-clasped-hands--study-of-a-reclining-woman/ The Long Engagement — Compositional Sketch and Sketch of Clasped Hands / Study of a reclining Woman
3. [s:Page:List of Carthusians 1800-1879.djvu/176|List of Carthusians 1800–1879, page 166]
4. http://www.ashmolean.museum/php/makepage.php?db=wapaintings&view=llisti&all=&arti=Hughes,+Arthur&titl=&mat=&prov=&sour=&acno=&park=&strt=&what=Search&s1=artist&s2=mainid&s3=&dno=25&cpos=3 Arthur Hughes (1832–1915): The Eve of St Agnes