Elsie Smeaton Munro

[1][2] Her father was a noted electrical and civil engineer, as was her older brother, Donald Smeaton Munro.

[3] Her younger brother, Ion Smeaton Munro, was a diplomat, journalist, and book collector.

[6] She wrote a comic operetta, The Kink, performed in Glasgow in 1910, with music by George Henry Martin.

[7][8] Her short plays Rosemary and The Cottage of Content were performed in Glasgow in 1916, as a wartime benefit for the Limbless Sailors' and Soldiers' Hospital.

[9] Munro wrote scripts for the Children's Hour programme on BBC Radio,[6] and gave recitals and reports for broadcast.