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unusual facts about Sir Robert Munro, 3rd Baronet



Chiefs of Clan Munro

He was succeeded by his cousin Sir Robert Munro, 3rd Baronet, the eldest male representative of the Munro of Obsdale branch of the Clan Munro, who are descended from chief Robert Mor Munro, 15th Baron of Foulis (d.1588).

Digby Mackworth Dolben

His father, William Harcourt Isham Mackworth (1806—1872), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.

Sir Robert Munro, 6th Baronet

Four English M.P.s joined Robert Munro and his colleague Patrick Haldane for the Scottish part of the commission's business, but they were greatly hindered by the dilatory ways of some members (including Sir Richard Steele, who was fined for non-attendance).

His marriage to a member of a great English family — Mary, daughter of Henry Seymour of Woodlands in Dorset — took place in London in 1716, and the romantic story of a courtship interrupted by the purloining of their letters has been preserved by tradition.


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