David Monro
1813–77
Scottish-born politician. MD, University of Edinburgh, 1834. Travelled to New Zealand, 1841–2, and became active in provincial and national politics. Speaker of the House of Representatives, 1861–70. Founding member, Nelson Horticultural Society. Contributed specimens to Joseph Dalton Hooker’s Handbook of the New Zealand flora (1864–7). Knighted, 1866.
Sources
DNB
DNZB
J. D. Hooker 1864–7, p. 11
Nature 16 (1877): 15–16.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
DNZB: A dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by G. H. Scholefield. 2 vols. Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs. 1940. The dictionary of New Zealand biography. Edited by W. H. Oliver et al. 5 vols. Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand: Department of Internal Affairs [and others]. 1990–2000.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1864–7. Handbook of the New Zealand flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec’s, Lord Auckland’s, Campbell’s, and MacQuarrie’s Islands. 2 vols. London: Lovell Reeve & Co.
