Godfrey Mundy

Major-General Godfrey Charles Mundy (10 March 1804 – 10 July 1860) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Godfrey Charles Mundy
Major-General Godfrey Charles Mundy
Born10 March 1804
Died10 July 1860 (1860-07-11) (aged 56)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
Years of service1821–1860
RankMajor-General
Battles/warsCrimean War

Military career

Mundy was commissioned as a lieutenant in the British Army in 1821.[1] He took part in the Siege of Bharatpur in the Indian princely state of Baharatpur in 1825 before being made Deputy Adjutant General of the military forces in Australia in 1826.[1] He was appointed Assistant Under Secretary at the Colonial Office from March to September 1854.[2] He served as Permanent Under Secretary in the War Office during the Crimean War and was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1857.[1] He died in office in 1860.[1] He was author of the book Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies, with a glimpse of the Gold-Fields.[3]

Family

In 1848 he married Lady Louisa Catherine Georgina Herbert; they had one son, Herbert Godfrey Mundy.[4]

References

Government offices
Preceded by Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
1857–1860
Succeeded by