John Shannon Munn
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John Shannon Munn 6 June 1880 Harbour Grace, Newfoundland Colony |
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| Died | 24 February 1918 (aged 37) at sea, near Cappahayden, Dominion of Newfoundland |
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| Cause of death | Drowning | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Newfoundlander | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Known for | Company director, first-class cricketer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Alice McGowen (1918, his death) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bowling style | Left-arm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1900–1901 | Oxford University | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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John Shannon Munn (6 June 1880 – 24 February 1918) was a prominent early-20th-century Newfoundlander. The step-son of Sir Edgar Bowring, he rose to become managing director of Bowring Brothers, but died in the wreck of the SS Florizel in 1918, along with his three-year-old daughter, Betty. Munn had also been a talented cricketer in his youth, and is one of the few Newfoundlanders to play at first-class level, having played in England for Oxford University.
John Shannon Munn was born in 1880 in Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, into a prominent local family. The company established by his Scottish-born grandfather, John Munn, owned several boats in Newfoundland's sealing and fishing fleets, and also owned Harbour Grace's newspaper and main store. Following the elder Munn's retirement in 1878, his son (John Shannon Munn's father), William Panton Munn, assumed management of the company together with his cousin, Robert Stewart Munn. William Munn died in 1882 and his widow, born Flora LeMessurier Clift, remarried in 1888 to Edgar Rennie Bowring, scion of another merchant family.
Bowring (later Sir Edgar) later became a director at Bowring Brothers (established by his grandfather, Benjamin Bowring), and John Shannon Munn became his protege at the firm after completing his education. Munn initially attended the Church of England College in St. John's (now Bishop Feild College), but was sent to England for further schooling, as had his step-father. From 1894, he attended the Forest School, a public school in Walthamstow, Essex.
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