Edward Miller Mundy (18 October 1750 – 18 October 1822) was an English landowner and

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politician who was MP for the

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constituency.

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

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of the Mundys of Markeaton. He was a direct male-line descendant of Sir John Mundy, who had purchased the manors of

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(the principal seat of the Mundy family),

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and Mackworth from Lord Audley in 1515, he was later appointed

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in 1522. He was educated at

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Career

He was appointed Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1772 and was later elected as the

MP for the

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

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in the trial of the men involved in the

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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: * Edward Miller Mundy (d. 1834), who married Nelly Barton in 1802. * Godfrey Basil Meynell Mundy (d. 1848), who married Hon. Sarah Brydges Rodney, a daughter of Admiral George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney. * George Mundy (1777–1861), who was an officer of the British Royal Navy. * Frederick Mundy * Henry Mundy * Frances Mundy (d. 1797), who married Lord Charles Fitzroy, second son of the Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton and his first wife,

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(a daughter of Lord Ravensworth). On 14 January 1788, he married Georgiana, Lady Middleton as his second wife. The former Georgiana Chadwick, she was the widow of

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and the second daughter of Evelyn Chadwick of

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. Before her death on 29 June 1789, they were the parents of one daughter: * Georgiana Elizabeth Miller Mundy (1789–1822), who married

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in 1807. On 19 October 1811, he married, as his third wife, Catherine (née Coffin) Barwell, the widow of

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, MP for

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and St Ives, and daughter of Nathaniel Coffin of

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. Together, they were the parents of one son: *

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(1813–1892), who married Isabella Leyborne-Popham, daughter of General Edward William Leyborne-Popham. He died at his seat,

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, aged 72.Gentleman's Magazine 1822
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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

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(1804–1860), the Lt. Gov. of Jersey who married Lady Louisa Catherine Georgina Herbert (a granddaughter of

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), in 1848. Through his daughter Frances, he was a grandfather of

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, who served as

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and

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; he married Lady Mary Lennox, the eldest child of

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. Through his daughter Georgiana, he was the grandfather of

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(who married

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, the only daughter of

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);

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; Lady Caroline Pelham-Clinton (who married Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, 2nd Baronet); Lady Henrietta Pelham-Clinton (who married Admiral Edwin Tennyson d'Eyncourt of Bayons Manor); and Lord Robert Renebald Pelham-Clinton.

References

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