A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Munro, Matthew
MUNRO. (Lieutenant, 1815. f-p., 10; h-p., 29.)
Matthew Munro was born in 1795.
This officer entered the Navy, 29 March, 1808, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Resistance 38, Capt. Chas. Adam, employed in the Channel, off the coast of Portugal, and in the Mediterranean. Following Capt. Adam, as Midshipman, in April, 1810, into the Invincible 74, he joined in a series of very active co-operations with the patriots on the coast of Catalonia, where he assisted at the defence of Tarragona in May and June, 1811, and served with the boats at the reduction, in June, 1813, after a siege of five days, of the fort of St. Philippe, in the Col de Balaguer, near Tortosa, armed with 12 pieces of ordnance, including 2 10-inch mortars and 2 howitzers, with a garrison of 101 officers and men. From Oct. 1809 to May, 1811, Mr. Munro, we may observe, had been allowed to serve on board the Colossus 74, Capt. Thos. Alexander. On finally leaving the Invincible, in Jan. 1814, he became attached as a Supernumerary to the Salvador del Mundo, Capt. Robt. Hall, lying at Plymouth, and next, in the course of the same year, as Master’s Mate, to the Leander 50, Capt. Sir Geo. Ralph Collier, on the North American station. In Aug. 1815 he took up a commission dated 4 of the preceding March; and he was subsequently, 4 July and 17 Oct. 1816, appointed to the Impregnable 104 and Leander again, the latter bearing the flag of Sir David Milne at Halifax. While in the Impregnable he commanded a gun-boat. No. 1, at the bombardment of Algiers. He was superseded from the Leander 19 June, 1818, and has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Munro married, in Feb. 1822, Philadelphia Jane Caroline, eldest daughter of the late Lieut.-General Monro, of Edmondsham House, Dorset, by whom he has issue a daughter. Agents ¦ – Hallett and Robinson.