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- At the age of 12 the young Hector Munro was educated at Pencarwick School in Exmouth and then as a boarder at Bedford School.
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Hector Hugh Munro was born on December 18, 1870 in Akyab, British Burma, to Charles Augustus Munro and Mary Frances Mercer. His father was Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and his mother was the daughter of Rear Admiral Samuel Mercer.
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At the age of 12 the young Hector Munro was educated at Pencarwick School in Exmouth and then as a boarder at Bedford School. In 1887, after his retirement, his father returned from Burma and embarked upon a series of European travels with Hector and his siblings.
Hector, whose health was delicate, studied at home with his sister’s governess until the age of fourteen, when he followed his brother to Pencarwick, a boarding school in Exmouth.
Munro was the son of an officer in the Burma police. At the age of two he was sent to live with his aunts near Barnstaple, Devon, England. He later took revenge on their strictness and lack of understanding by portraying tyrannical aunts in many of his stories about children.
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The aunts, Charlotte and Augusta (called Aunt Tom), squabbled endlessly over trivialities, involved the children in their petty jealousies, and enforced on their young charges a strict Victorian regimen that included permanently closed windows and little outside play. Hector, being the youngest, slight of build, delicate, and pale, escaped the wors...
Munro published nothing else until the following year, when publisher Grant Richards brought out The Rise of the Russian Empire. Munro's first book, a well-researched history of Russia up to the early seventeenth century, was widely reviewed on both sides of the Atlantic. An anonymous critic in the Nation credited Munro with bringing early Russian ...
Trying to repeat the success of the Alice sketches, Munro and Gould parodied Kipling's The Jungle Book and Just So Stories in the "The Political Jungle Book" and "Not So Stories" for the Westminster Gazette, but these political satires were not nearly as popular as the Alice series. Munro next decided to widen his horizons by becoming a foreign cor...
The Chronicles of Clovis introduces two new main characters, Clovis Sangrail and Bertie Van Tahn. Although both characters are akin to Reginald, Clovis is more likeable than either Reginald or Bertie; while he delights in absurd situations and in deflating the pretensions of others, he often has sympathy for those in real trouble. By contrast, the ...
Munro also continued writing stories for newspapers, and these works were collected in Beasts and Super-Beasts. As the title suggests, animal stories take up a large part of the collection, but Munro also introduced a new main character, Vera, whose name, suggesting truthfulness, is at odds with her role in the stories. Vera is a practical joker li...
Less than a month after war was declared in early August, 1914, Munro enlisted in the cavalry as an ordinary soldier. Though he was well past the age when social pressure stemming from war hysteria might influence him to join up, Munro shared the feelings of thousands of younger men who experienced the declaration of war as a chance to act nobly an...
At the age of 12 young Hector was sent to Pencarwick School in Exmouth and Bedford Grammar School. In his early 20s, Munro went to Burma in 1893 to join the Colonial Burmese Military Police (an occupation which George Orwell would later pursue as well) until ill-health caused him to return to England a year later.
Nov 21, 2023 · Hector Hugh Munro, better known as H.H. Munro or by his pen name, Saki, was born in Burma in 1870. Two years after his birth, Munro's mother went on a trip to England, where she was charged by...
