Before Dawn (Poems & Impressions): 'O Gentle vision in the dawn, My spirit over faint cool water glides''

Harold Edward Monro was born on 14th March 1879 at 137 Chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles, Brussels. He was the youngest of the three surviving children to Edward William Monro, a civil engineer, and his wife and first cousin, Arabel Sophia. When Munro was only nine his father died.

Monro, and his sister Mary, were raised by their widowed mother, who later married again in 1910 to Sir Daniel Fulthorpe Gooch.

Monro received his education at Radley College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambr...