Edward Miller Mundy (1750–1822)

Edward Miller Mundy (18 October 1750 – 18 October 1822) was an English landowner and Tory politician who was MP for the Derbyshire constituency.[1]

Edward Miller Mundy
Member of Parliament for Derbyshire
In office
1784–1822
Preceded byLord George Augustus Cavendish
Hon. Nathaniel Curzon
Succeeded byFrancis Mundy
Lord George Cavendish
Sheriff of Derbyshire
In office
1772–1773
Preceded byWilliam Milnes
Succeeded bySamuel Rotheram
Personal details
Born(1750-10-18)18 October 1750
Heanor, Derbyshire, England, GB
Died18 October 1822(1822-10-18) (aged 72)
Shipley Hall, Shipley, Derbyshire, England, UK
Political partyTory
Spouses
Frances Meynell
(m. 1772; died 1783)
    Georgiana, Lady Middleton
    (m. 1788; died 1789)
      Catherine Coffin Barwell
      (m. 1811)
      Parent(s)Edward Mundy
      Hester (née Miller)
      EducationEton College

      Early life

      Edward Miller Mundy was born on 18 October 1750 in Heanor, Derbyshire. He was the son of Edward Mundy and his wife Hester Mundy (née Miller). His father, who was the Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1730, was the son of Lieutenant Colonel Robert Mundy and his wife Ellen (née Slack). Robert was the son of Gilbert Mundy who was the first of the Mundys of Allestree- a cadet branch of the Mundys of Markeaton.

      He was a direct male-line descendant of Sir John Mundy, who had purchased the manors of Markeaton (the principal seat of the Mundy family), Allestree and Mackworth from Lord Audley in 1515, he was later appointed Lord Mayor of London in 1522.

      He was educated at Eton College.

      Career

      He was appointed Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1772 and was later elected as the Tory MP for the Derbyshire constituency in 1783, a seat which he held for thirty-nine years.

      He was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Derby Regiment of Militia, in July 1803. In 1817 he was a member of the Grand Jury in the trial of the men involved in the Pentrich Rising.[2]

      Personal life

      Mundy married three times. On 23 December 1772, he married Frances Meynell, the eldest daughter of Godfrey Meynell of Yeldersley. Before her death on 28 October 1783, they were the parents of five sons and one daughter:[1]

      On 14 January 1788, he married Georgiana, Lady Middleton as his second wife. The former Georgiana Chadwick, she was the widow of Thomas Willoughby, 4th Baron Middleton and the second daughter of Evelyn Chadwick of West Leake, Nottinghamshire. Before her death on 29 June 1789, they were the parents of one daughter:[1]

      On 19 October 1811, he married, as his third wife, Catherine (née Coffin) Barwell, the widow of Richard Barwell, MP for Helston and St Ives, and daughter of Nathaniel Coffin of Bristol.[1] Together, they were the parents of one son:[1]

      • Robert Miller Mundy (1813–1892), who married Isabella Leyborne-Popham, daughter of General Edward William Leyborne-Popham.

      He died at his seat, Shipley Hall, aged 72.[4]

      Descendants

      Through his eldest son Edward, he was a grandfather of Edward Miller Mundy, who was Conservative Member for Derbyshire South from 1841 to 1849. He was a grandfather of Godfrey Basil Mundy (1804–1860), the Lt. Gov. of Jersey who married Lady Louisa Catherine Georgina Herbert (a granddaughter of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon), in 1848.

      Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of Sir Charles Augustus FitzRoy, who served as Governor of New South Wales, Prince Edward Island and Antigua; he married Lady Mary Lennox, the eldest child of Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond.[5]

      Through his daughter Georgiana, he was the grandfather of Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (who married Lady Susan Hamilton, the only daughter of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton);[3] Lord Charles Pelham-Clinton;[3] Lady Caroline Pelham-Clinton (who married Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, 2nd Baronet);[3] Lady Henrietta Pelham-Clinton (who married Admiral Edwin Tennyson d'Eyncourt of Bayons Manor);[3] and Lord Robert Renebald Pelham-Clinton.[3]

      References

      1. "MUNDY, Edward Miller (1750-1822), of Shipley Hall, nr. Ilkeston, Derbys". www.histparl.ac.uk. History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
      2. The Times, 16 October 1817.
      3. "Newcastle-under-Lyne, Duke of (GB, 1756 - 1988)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
      4. Gentleman's Magazine 1822
      5. "Richmond, Duke of (E, 1675)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
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