Colin Munro

Colin Munro shares a Y chromosome with the ‘Mad Munros’, physicians at Bedlam, and James Monroe, fifth US president, but sadly has not been related to the subject of his article here for at least six centuries. He is a retired dermatologist.

On​ 21 December 1792 the Shaw Ardaseer, bound for Madras, was taking on cargo at the mouth of the Hooghly River near Calcutta. ‘With a view of diverting the tedium of a ship at anchor’, four passengers, among them a young man called Munro, went ashore to hunt deer on Saugor Island. Another member of the party, Captain Henry Conran, described what followed in a letter to a...

Letter

After Culloden

12 August 2021

Neal Ascherson is right that William Roy’s Military Survey of Scotland, conducted in the aftermath of the 1745 uprising, is ‘safe somewhere in the British Library’: it resides at Maps K.Top.48.25-1.a-f (LRB, 12 August). It is also true that, thanks to the effective subjugation of the Highland insurgency, the survey wasn’t needed for its original military purpose, but Ascherson’s remark...
Letter

Dear John

10 February 2022

Chris Moore refers to two sexual histories of the Great War from 1937 (Letters, 10 March). Earlier, in 1920, Charles White and William Herbert Brown of the RAMC published An Atlas of the Primary and Cutaneous Lesions of Acquired Syphilis in the Male, based on their experience of 19,000 cases at the Rochester Row Military Hospital. Brown was a photography enthusiast, though the copious illustrations...

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