Edward Miller Mundy (1750–1822)

Mundy, who was educated at Eton College, was the only son of Edward Mundy and his wife Hesther (née Miller) Mundy. His father, who was descended from the Mundys of Allestree, was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1731, and his mother brought the Shipley estate into the family. Both his father and mother died in 1767.

Mundy was High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1772 and was elected Member of Parliament for Derbyshire in 1783 and held the seat 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]

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]

• Edward Miller Mundy (d. 1834), who married Nelly Barton in 1802.[1]
• Godfrey Basil Meynell Mundy (d. 1848), who married Hon. Sarah Brydges Rodney, a daughter of Admiral George Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney.[1]
• George Mundy (1777–1861), who was an officer of the British Royal Navy.[1]
• 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, Anne (a daughter of Lord Ravensworth).[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]

• Georgiana Elizabeth Miller Mundy (1789–1822), who married Henry Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle in 1807.[3]

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]