Sir Robert Miller Mundy (1813–1892) was a British soldier and colonial civil servant. He was the Lieutenant-Governor of

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Biography

Robert Miller Mundy was born in

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. Mundy was the son of Edward Miller Mundy, and his third wife Catherine Coffin, widow of Richard Barwell. His father was a Member of Parliament for

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from 1784 until his death in 1822; his nephew, Edward Miller Mundy, held the same seat in 1841-1849. He trained at Woolwich and by 1833 he was a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery. In March 1841 he joined the horse artillery, and became a second captain in April 1844, and major by brevet on selling out in October 1846. After a country life in

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for some years, he volunteered to serve in the Turkish army during the

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and became a lieutenant-colonel in the Osmanli horse artillery until August 1856. He received the medal of the third class of Medjidié. In September 1863 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of

in the Caribbean and started his colonial career. He was Governor of the

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in 1865 and of

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from May 1866 to September 1867. He returned to the Windwards Islands in 1868-69 and then looked after the

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in 1871. From Grenada he was transferred in February 1874 to the permanent appointment of lieutenant-governor of British Honduras, and retired in 1877. Created CMG in 1874, and KCMG in 1877, he settled in Hampshire, and died at Hollybank,

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, Hampshire, on 22 March 1892. He married in 1841 Isabella Popham of Littlecott, Wiltshire who survived him.C. A. Harris, ‘Mundy, Sir Robert Miller (1813–1892)’, rev. Lynn Milne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mundy, Robert Miller 1813 births 1892 deaths People from the Borough of Havant Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Governors of British Guiana Governors of British Grenada Governors of the Windward Islands Governors of the Leeward Islands Governors of British Honduras