Matt monro jnr
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Harold Monro
English poet, critic and bookseller
Harold Edward Monro (14 March 1879 – 16 March 1932) was an English poet born in Brussels, Belgium. As the proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, he helped many poets to bring their work before the public.
Life and career
Monro was born at 137 Chaussée de Charleroi, Saint-Gilles/St Gillis, Brussels, on 14 March 1879, as the youngest of three surviving children of Edward William Monro (1848–1889), civil engineer, and his wife and first cousin, Arabel Sophia (1849–1926), daughter of Peter John Margary, also a civil engineer.[1] Monro's father was born at Marylebone and died aged 41 when Monro was only nine years old. The Monro family was well established in Bloomsbury. His paternal grandfather, Dr Henry Munro FRCP MD, was a surgeon, born at Gower St, Bloomsbury, in 1817.
Monro was educated at Radley College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.[2] His first collection of poetry was published in 1906. He also edited a poetry magazine, The Poetry Review, which became influential. In 1
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Harold Monro was a Belgium-born English poet. Although he wrote poems about the First World War, and particularly about men that he knew involved in it, he could not be described as a “war poet” as such. Besides writing his own work he opened the Poetry Bookshop in London, in 1913, and, over the next twenty years, this became an establishment that brought many up and coming poets to the attention of the reading public.
He was born Harold Edward Monro on the 14th March 1879 in the Belgian capital Brussels. His father Edward, born in London, died when Harold was only nine years old and many believe that this event influenced his future writing career. He had a comfortable upbringing and was sent to Radley College for his early education before going on to Caius College, Cambridge. At the age of 27 he had his first collection of poetry published and, by this time, he was editing the influential literary magazine The Poetry Review.
From 1913 he enjoyed a modicum of success with his poetry bookshop on Devonshire Street, Bloomsbury. He published more work at his own expense,
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Matt Monro
British singer (1930–1985)
Musical artist
Matt Monro (born Terence Edward Parsons; 1 December 1930 – 7 February 1985)[3] was an English singer. Known as "The Man with the Golden Voice", he performed internationally during his 30-year career and sold a reported 23 million records.[4]AllMusic has described Monro as "one of the most underrated pop vocalists of the '60s", who "possessed the easiest, most perfect baritone in the business".[2]Frank Sinatra said of Monro after his death: “If I had to choose three of the finest male vocalists in the singing business, Matt would be one of them. His pitch was right on the nose; his word enunciations letter perfect; his understanding of a song thorough.”[5]
Monro's recordings include the UK top 10 hits "Portrait of My Love", "My Kind of Girl", "Softly As I Leave You", "Walk Away", and a cover of the Beatles' "Yesterday". He also recorded several film themes such as "From Russia with Love" for the eponymous James Bond film, "Born Free" for the eponymous film, and "On Days Like These
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