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
edit- William Cliffe Foley Anderson, Francis John Haverfield, Joseph Grafton Milne, and John Arthur Ruskin Munro, On the Roman town of Doclea in Montenegro.
References
edit- ^ Rectors, British History Online. In 'Lincoln College', H. E. Salter and Mary D. Lobel (editors), A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford (1954), pp. 163–173.
- ^ The Long Engagement — Compositional Sketch and Sketch of Clasped Hands / Study of a reclining Woman, Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource.
- ^ List of Carthusians 1800–1879, page 166.
- ^ Arthur Hughes (1832–1915): The Eve of St Agnes, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK.
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