{{short description|Scottish politician & Scotland international rugby union player}}
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'''Patrick Munro''' (9 October 1883 – 3 May 1942), also known as '''Pat Munro''', was a Scotland international rugby union player and later a British Conservative politician.<ref name=Scrum>Scrum.com player profile. Retrieved 20 February 2010</ref>
==Rugby union career==
===Amateur career===
He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he held an Open History Scholarship and graduated with 2nd class Honours in History. He was also awarded a Half Blue for High Jump in 1906 and President of the Vincent's Club (the club for Oxford Blues) in 1906–1907.<ref name=":0" />
He played for Oxford University RFC.<ref name=Bath1/>
Munro was a Rugby Blue in 1903,<ref name=":0" /> 1904, 1905 (and Captain in 1905).{{Citation needed|date=November 2018}}.
He also played for London Scottish FC.<ref name=Bath1/>
===Provincial career===
He played for the Whites Trial side against the Blues Trial side on 21 January 1911, while still with London Scottish.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000576/19110123/110/0009 |title=Register |url-access=subscription |via=British Newspaper Archive}}</ref>
===International career=== He was capped thirteen times for {{nrut|Scotland}} between 1905 and 1911,<ref name=Scrum/><ref name=Bath1/> and was also a rugby international for Scotland in 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1911. Munro captained the team in 1907 and 1911.<ref name=Scrum />
===Administrative career=== He was President of the Scottish Rugby Union for the period 1939 to 1942.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/files/SR_RR1819_digital.pdf|date=2018-08-16|title=Scottish Rugby Record 2018/19|accessdate=2020-04-01|archive-date=16 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116210013/https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/sru-files/files/SR_RR1819_digital.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Political career==
===Sudan=== He joined the Sudan Political Service in 1907, and was Governor of Darfur Province in 1923-1924 and Governor of Khartoum Province from 1925 to 1929.<ref name=":0" />
He was mentioned in dispatches in 1919 and awarded the Order of the Nile (3rd class) in 1929.<ref name=":0" /> He was a Member of British Delegation to the Capitulations Conference in Montreux in 1937.<ref>[http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/dfat/treaties/1938/11.html Convention regarding the Abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt]</ref>
===Member of Parliament=== He was Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Llandaff and Barry from 1931 until his death. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Capt. Euan Wallace when he was Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in 1935 and then Secretary for Overseas Trade. Munro went on to be a Junior Government Whip in 1937, resigning in March 1942.<ref name=":0" />
He joined the government payroll as a Junior Lord of the Treasury later that year and served until his death.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-patrick-munro/index.html|title=Mr Patrick Munro (Hansard)|website=api.parliament.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-11-29}}</ref>
==Military service and death== Munro, a private in the Home Guard, died on 3 May 1942 whilst taking part in a military exercise at Westminster.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/7531425|title=Casualty - Private Patrick Munro|website=www.cwgc.org|language=en|access-date=2018-11-29}}</ref><ref name="Bath1">Bath, p. 109.</ref> The exercise was a simulation of a landing by airborne troops in central London in tandem with fifth-column activities as a test of Home Guard defences.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Invasion of London|date=4 May 1942|work=The Times|issue=49226|page=2}}</ref> As a member of the Palace of Westminster Home Guard, Munro was acting as a runner and was in the Liberal Whips' room with two company colleagues. It was there that he collapsed suddenly and died before he could be taken for aid.<ref name=":0" />
He is buried Cathedine (St. Michael) Churchyard in Brecknockshire under the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.<ref name=":1" />
==Family== Munro was the fifth son of Patrick Munro<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|title=Obituary|date=4 May 1942|work=The Times|issue=49226|page=6}}</ref> and Mary Helen Catherine Dormond.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-229607|title=Munro, Patrick, (9 Oct. 1883–3 May 1942), MP (U) Llandaff and Barry, Glamorgan, since 1931; Junior Lord of the Treasury, 1937–42 {{!}}|date=1 December 2007|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|language=en|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u229607|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1|url-access=subscription|access-date=9 September 2019}}</ref>
Munro was married in 1911 to Jessie Margaret Munro of Bwlch in Wales.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
==See also==
* List of Scottish rugby union players killed in World War II
==References==
{{Reflist}}
;Sources {{refbegin}} # Bath, Richard (ed.) ''The Scotland Rugby Miscellany'' (Vision Sports Publishing Ltd, 2007 {{ISBN|1-905326-24-6}}) # Massie, Allan ''A Portrait of Scottish Rugby'' (Polygon, Edinburgh; {{ISBN|0-904919-84-6}}) {{refend}}
==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-patrick-munro | Patrick Munro }}
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