Munro College
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Munro College is an all boys high school in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. Founded in 1856, Munro is one of the oldest high school institutions in Jamaica.
The school was named after Robert Hugh Munro, who bequeathed property in a trust to his nephew, Caleb Dickenson, a medical doctor, and the Churchwardens of the Parish of St. Elizabeth, to be used to establish a school for the education of poor children in the parish. Robert Munro passed away in 1798. Dickenson himself died in 1821 before he was able to satisfy his uncle’s wish. But having improved and enlarged the property in the interim, he bequeathed it fully to carry out Munro’s benevolent intentions, plus to support the aged poor in the parish.
However, it was another 34 years later - in 1855 - that an Act was passed in the Legislature that paved the way for the establishment of two schools and an almshouse in St. Elizabeth, under the auspices of what became the Munro and Dickenson Trust. First the Munro and Dickenson Free School was opened in Black River in 1856, then moved a year later up to Potsdam in the same parish and was renamed Potsdam. After the second world war the school was named Munro College.
