Patrick Munro also known as Pat Munro, was a British Conservative

Conservative Party (UK)

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 politician and international rugby union

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 player.

Biography

The fifth son of Patrick Munro and Mary Helen Catherine Dormond, he was educated at Leeds Grammar School

Leeds Grammar School

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 and Christ Church, Oxford

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, where he held an Open History Scholarship and graduated with 2nd class Honours in History. He was also awarded a Half Blue for High Jump in 1906 and President of the Vincent's Club

Vincent's Club

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 (the club for Oxford Blues) in 1906-1907.

He joined the Sudan Political Service in 1907, and was Governor of Darfur

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 Province in 1923-1924 and Governor of Khartoum

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 Province from 1925-1929. He was mentioned in despatches in 1919 and awarded the Order of the Nile

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 (3rd class)in 1929. He was a Member of British Delegation to the Capitulations Conference

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 in Montreux

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 in 1937.

He was Conservative Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Llandaff and Barry

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 from 1931 until his death. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary

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 to Capt. Euan Wallace

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 when he was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department

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 in 1935, and when Secretary for Overseas Trade

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  1935. He was an unpaid Assistant Whip in 1937, joining the government payroll as a Junior Lord of the Treasury

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 later that year and serving until his death.

Munro, a private in the Home Guard, died whilst taking part in an exercise at Westminster in 1942.

Rugby career

He was a Rugby Blue in 1903, 1904, 1905 (and Captain in 1905).

He was capped thirteen times for between 1905-11. He was also a Rugby International for Scotland in 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1911, captaining the team in 1907 and 1911.

He also played for Oxford University RFC

Oxford University RFC

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 and London Scottish FC.

He was later President of the Scottish Rugby Union

Scottish Rugby Union

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 from 1939 to 1940.

Sources

• Bath, Richard (ed.) The Scotland Rugby Miscellany (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 ISBN 1905326246)
• Massie, Allan A Portrait of Scottish Rugby (Polygon, Edinburgh; ISBN 0 904919 84 6)
• player profile on scrum.com

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