Named Machell after the famous Captain Machell of Barnard Castle.

Mother died three weeks after giving birth.

Age 3 in 1881 census, ref: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X3N7-WJN

Educated privately at Glenalmond, Perthshire, Scotland.

Changed surname from WATSON to WATSON MUNRO by deed poll 22/7/1881, when father remarried.

Lived with step-mother, half brother and half sister in wealthy circumstances.

Achieved Electrical and Mechanical degree A.M.I.E.E. London 1900 (Watson-Munro).

Subjected to family pressures due to smoking and drink.

Fought in Boer War, married in South Africa, then emigrated to New Zealand alone.

Lived near Dunedin (from about 1905?)

Remarried 7/4/1910.

Engineer (dam construction).

University lecturer (Christchurch).

Christchurch about 1913, Wanganui 1917-19, Guildford England 1919-21, Wellington 1921, Lower Hutt about 1924, 11th Ave, Tauranga about 1939, Lower Hutt 1942.