We cannot close this memoir without remarking that the subject of it, with the exception of a very few months in 1802-3, was never a day out of commission from the summer of 1791, when he first went to sea, till the peace of 1814, a period of twenty-three years.
Captain Vansittart married, in 1809, a daughter of the Rev. John Pennefather, by whom he has three sons and two daughters now living. His surviving brothers are George Henry, a General in the army, and Edward, in holy orders; the latter has added the surname of Neale to that of his own family. His first cousin, the Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, many years Chancellor of his Majesty’s Exchequer, an upright statesman, and an amiable private character, has recently been created a peer, by the title of Baron Bexley.
Agent.– Thomas Stillwell, Esq.
GEORGE MUNDY, Esq
A Companion of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath; and M.P. for Boroughbridge, in Yorkshire.
[Post-Captain of 1801.]
This officer is a son of the late Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. many years M.P. for Derbyshire, by Frances, daughter of Godfrey Meynell, Esq. of Yeldersley, in the same county[1].
- ↑ The Mundys of Derbyshire are an ancient and most respectable family, branches of which resided at Mocketon and Quardon. Their estates were considerable, and they still flourish at Mackworth, near Derby, and at Marton. Edward Mundy, Esq. was M.P. for the town of Derby in 1710 and 1713; W. Mundy, Esq. represented Leicestershire in 1741.
The late Edward Miller Mundy, Esq. by his union with Miss Meynell, had six children; viz. first, Frances, married Lord Charles Fitzroy, brother of the Duke of Grafton, a General in the army, and Colonel of the 48th regiment; whose son married Lady Mary, eldest daughter of Charles, fourth Duke of Richmond. Second, Edward Miller, a magistrate for the county of Derby. Third, Godfrey Basil, a Major-General, married Sarah, daughter of the celebrated Admiral Lord Rodney. Fourth, George, the subject of this memoir. Fifth, Frederick, Rector of Winston upon Tees, in the county of Durham. Sixth, Henry, in the service of the Hon. East India Company. Mr. Mundy’s second lady was Georgiana, widow of Thomas, fourth Lord Middleton, by whom he had a daughter, who married, in 1807, Henry, the present Duke of Newcastle. By his third marriage (with Catherine, relict of Richard Barwell, Esq. of Stanstead, co. Sussex), he left an infant son. Mr. Mundy died in 1822, breathing his last on the evening of his natal day, aged 72 years.
