Hugh Munro

Hugh Munro was a merchant, justice of the peace, judge, politician, office holder, farmer, and agriculturalist.

Biography Munro was born 1764 in Ross-shire, Scotland. He wed Martha and was the father of three sons and three daughters, In 1807 Munro was appointed a justice of the peace and judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Northumberland County, Munro was also registrar of wills and deeds, and trustee of the grammar school, when it was established about 1836.

Munro was granted 500 acres on the banks of the Tetagouche River and named his residence Somerset Vale; part of his estate is now the location of the local hospital. He was a successful agriculturalist, and organized and was the first president of the Gloucester County Agricultural Society, formed in 1828.

Munro died on 25 September 1846 in Bathurst, and is buried downtown at the old Church of England cemetery.