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Godfrey Charles Mundy (10 March 1804 – 10 July 1860) was a

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officer who became

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Military career

Mundy was commissioned as a lieutenant in the

in 1821. He took part in the

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in the Indian

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of Baharatpur in 1825 before being made Deputy Adjutant General of the military forces in Australia in 1826. He was appointed Assistant Under Secretary at the

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from March to September 1854. He served as

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in the

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during the

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and was appointed

in 1857. He died in office in 1860. He was author of the book ''Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, with a glimpse of the Gold-Fields''.

Family

In 1848 he married Lady Louisa Catherine Georgina Herbert; they had one son, Herbert Godfrey Mundy.Bessie Newenham Stuart
The Peerage.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-14.

References

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