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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Monro    
First Name(s)  James    
Birth Year  1838    
Entry  I.C.S. : born Nov. 25, 1838 : son of George Monro, S.S.C. Edinburgh : educated at the Edinburgh High School, Edinburgh and Berlin Universities : went out to Lower Bengal, 1858 : was Civil and Sessions Judge, 1874 : Inspr-General of Police, Bengal, 1877 : Commissioner of a Division, 1881 : strongly opposed Lord Ripon's policy of Local Self Government : retired, 1883 : became Assistant- Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, London, 1884 : Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, 1888-90 : C.B., 1888 : as Commissioner of Police, London, Monro stopped the dynamite outrages, and controlled the great strikes of the dock labourers and South London gasworkers : got justice done to the men of the Metropolitan Police in the matter of their pensions : went to India again about 1892: organized and superintended the Ranaghat Medical Mission till 1905.     
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