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The figure depicted in the statue is in the correct position for an ancient stirrupless rider or current amateur bareback rider but not the accepted position for good riders today. Even bare back, to ensure correct stirrup riding, the ear-shoulder-hip-heel alignment should be straight and vertical. I would conclude either this statue is patterned after an old Roman one. Or Munro rode like this and didn't care (it works well, it's just not good for your normal riding form) or the sculptor rode like this. But, the statue is not just a rider with the saddle missing. http://www.cha-ahse.org/teaching%20articles/bareback_jg.htm 66.105.244.3 00:04, 8 April 2007 (UTC)hhhenry[reply]

Contradiction

How can a person born 1773 be the grandfather of a person born 1761? Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 14:30, 2 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Munro's grandfather was a tailor, who invested in American tobacco and developed a prosperous business. This gave Thomas' family a foundation for a marginal gentility, which enabled four of Alexander Munro's sons to enter the British East India Company's service. However, the American Revolutionary War destroyed that business and ruined Alexander's finances.Fconaway (talk) 20:35, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Proposal of Statue of Thomas Munro

I do not understand why the Statue of Thomas Munro has its own article. Is the statue really that notable as to be considered separate from the person it depicts? --dashiellx (talk) 11:33, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • SUPPORT: Merger of Statue article with the person's article is good. The statue article anyways talks more about the person than the statue itself. Only the fact of being Stirrupless is mentioned a couple of times to extend it. -Animeshkulkarni (talk) 12:16, 5 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]