Cecil James Monro
1833–82
Barrister and mathematician. BA, Cambridge (Trinity College), 1855; admitted to Lincoln’s Inn, 1855; called to the bar, 1860. Lived abroad owing to ill health, and spent much of his career writing letters and correcting proof-sheets for friends. Corresponded with James Clerk Maxwell on physics, with Augustus De Morgan on pure mathematics and probability, and with William Stanley Jevons on symbolic logic.
Source
Alum. Cantab.
Bibliography
Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.
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