Munro, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE

Munro, HUGH ANDREW JOHNSTONE, Latin scholar, born at Elgin in Scotland in 1819, was educated at Shrewsbury and Trinity College, Cambridge, elected fellow of his college in 1843, and professor of Latin in his university in 1869 (he resigned the chair in 1872), and died at Rome, 30th March 1885. His greatest achievement was an edition of Lucretius (1864; 4th ed. 1885), text, translation, and notes, one of the finest and most brilliant works of British scholarship. His Horace appeared in 1869; his Criticisms and Elucidations of Catullus in 1878; and his translations into Latin and Greek verse were printed in 1884.