Editing Hector Munro, 8th Laird of Novar (section)

==Family==
[[File:The Death of Munrow MET DP-1687-021 (cropped).jpg|thumb|''The Death of Munrow'', a notorious hunting accident in India in 1792, evidently still famous in the 1820s, when this [[Staffordshire figure]] group was made]]
Sir Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar having reached the full rank of General finally retired in 1798.<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar"/> He died unmarried on or about 27 December 1805 at Novar House. He had four natural children by different mothers:

#Hector Sutherland Munro, born 10 July 1775 (but baptised and indexed in error only as Hector Sutherland).<ref>British India Office Births and Baptism IOR/L/MIL/9/109/405-06</ref> He joined the East India Company's military service as a cadet in 1792,<ref>East India Company Cadet Register IOR/L/MIL/9/255/88v, 89v</ref> but on his way to Madras was mauled by a tiger on Saugor Island, Bengal on 21 December 1792 and died the following day.<ref>''Madras Courier'' (10 Jan 1793)</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Seton-Karr |first=Walter Scott |url=https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Selections_from_Calcutta_Gazettes_of_the/v0gOAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA359&printsec=frontcover |title=Selections from Calcutta Gazettes of the Years 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, and 1797 |publisher=O. T. Cutter, Military Orphan Press |year=1865 |volume=2 |location=Calcutta |pages=359 |chapter=The 3rd January 1793: Extract from a letter from a passenger on board the “Ardaseer,” dated Cox's Island, December 22nd, 1792 |quote="when, in the midst of our merriment, surrounded by dandees cutting wood, and ourselves not a little noisy, an exceeding large and ferocious royal tiger rushed in among us from the jungle at our backs, and, to the unspeakable horror and grief of us all, seized on the much-regretted Munro, and carried him off, though neither of us were three yards distant at the time." |access-date=21 April 2022}}</ref> The incident was widely publicised in the British press and the story has been retold many times. It has also been also commemorated in a series of [[Staffordshire figures]] of the "Death of Munrow".<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Munro|first=Colin|date=4 January 2018|title=Thus were the British defeated|url=https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n01/colin-munro/thus-were-the-british-defeated|journal=London Review of Books|volume=40|issue=1|pages=21–22}}</ref> Mackenzie<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar"/> erroneously identified the victim as his half-brother Hugh (below)
#Hugh Munro born 22 March 1777, who joined the East India Company as a Writer in 1796,<ref>British India Office Births and Baptisms IOR/J/1/16/121-24 : 1796</ref> and rose to be a Senior Merchant, Collector and Mintmaster of Bombay. His father, who held the post of Barrack Master of North Britain, appears to have appointed him Deputy.<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar" /> He died in 1814, aboard the ''[[Henry Addington (1800 EIC ship)|Henry Addington]]'', on the journey home from India via China. 
#Alexander Munro, baptised 26 July 1787, who also joined the East India Company as a cadet in 1803 and died, said to have been devoured by a shark,<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar" /> at Bombay on 12 November 1804.<ref>''Bombay Courier'' (19 Nov 1804)</ref>
#Jane Munro, who married Sir Ronald Crawford Ferguson of Raith, county of Fife. She died in 1803, shortly after the birth of her second child. Her son [[Robert Munro Ferguson|Robert Munro-Ferguson of Raith]] and grandson [[Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar|Ronald Munro-Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar]] later succeeded to the Novar estate, in accordance with the terms of the entail executed by Jane's father Sir Hector Munro.<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar" />

Sir Hector Munro, 8th laird of Novar was initially succeeded by his brother, Sir Alexander Munro, 9th of Novar who was Consul-General at Madrid and then Commissioner of Customs in England.<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar"/> Alexander first married his cousin Margaret Munro (d. 1768) but their only son Capt. Alexander Munro was killed in India in 1778. Alexander remarried Miss Johnstone, sister of General Johnstone of Auchen Castle, Dumfries<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar"/> with two sons and a daughter. He was succeeded by his third son [[Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar]] who himself left several illegitimate children including [[Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro]].<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar"/> However, as already mentioned, on the death of Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro of Novar the estate of Novar passed to Colonel Robert Munro-Ferguson, son of Jane Munro, natural daughter of General Sir Hector Munro, 8th of Novar.<ref name="MacKenzieMunroNovar"/> The Munro-Fergusons of Novar, descendants of Robert Munro-Ferguson's daughter Alice, are still in possession of the Novar Estate today.