. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ith Captain, afterwards SirJohn Malcolm, joint secretary to the commission-ers for the settlement of Mysore. Soon after hewas nominated by Lord Mornington (afterwardsthe Marquis Wellesley), then governor-general ofIndia, to the charge of the civil administration ofCanara, a wild and rugged province on the west-ern or Malabar coast of the peninsula. In May 1800 Munro was promoted to the rankof major, and having established order and tran-quillity in Canara, he applied for
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. ith Captain, afterwards SirJohn Malcolm, joint secretary to the commission-ers for the settlement of Mysore. Soon after hewas nominated by Lord Mornington (afterwardsthe Marquis Wellesley), then governor-general ofIndia, to the charge of the civil administration ofCanara, a wild and rugged province on the west-ern or Malabar coast of the peninsula. In May 1800 Munro was promoted to the rankof major, and having established order and tran-quillity in Canara, he applied for and obtained thesuperintendence of the extensive and valuableprovince ceded by the Nizam in commutation ofhis subsidy; and in this new field, where he con-tinued for seven years, he not only achieved thecomplete organization of a disturbed and barbar-ous territory, but so far gained the confidence andgood will of the inhabitants as to be styled bythem The Father of the People. In 1804 he obtained the rank of lieutenant-col-onel; and in 1808, after twenty-eight yearsun-interrupted service in India, he revisited his na-. y/h^r/lUA4^A^—s MUNRO, 217 SIR THOMAS. tive country. On the renewal of the CompanysCharter, he was, for many days consecutively, ex-amined before a committee of the House of Com-mons. In 1813 he attained the full rank of colo-nel, and in 1814 he married Jane, daughter ofRichard Campbell, Esq. of Craigie, Ayrshire, bywhom he had two sons, Thomas and the latter year he returned to Madras, at thehead of a commission of inquiry into the judicialadministration of our Eastern dominions, for whichhis vigorous and comprehensive understanding,his long and extensive experience, and his habitsof laborious research rendered him peculiarly qua-lified. In the war with the Pindarries and Mahrattasin 1817 and the following year, he greatly distin-guished himself. Being in the neighbourhood ofSoondoor, where he had been sent as commis-sioner to take charge of the di
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