MUNDY, Edward Miller (1750-1822), of Shipley Hall, nr. Ilkeston, Derbys.

Mundy, an inconspicuous and entirely silent county Member, was usually a supporter of the Liverpool administration by this period. HP Commons, 1790-1820, iv. 642-3. He was returned for the ninth time for Derbyshire after a token contest at the general election of 1820, when he deprecated the candidacy of his spurious opponent and commended the conduct of his kinsman Francis Mundy* as sheriff. Derby Mercury, 1, 22 Mar. 1820. He presented Derbyshire petitions complaining of agricultural distress, 20 Feb. 1821, 26 Apr. 1822. The Times, 21 Feb. 1821, 27 Apr. 1822. He divided against Catholic relief, 28 Feb. 1821, and paired against the Catholic peers bill, 30 Apr. 1822. Unless it was given to his more active son George, Member for Boroughbridge since 1818, he was granted a month’s leave on urgent private business, 30 Apr. 1821; he was reckoned by one radical source to be almost wholly ‘an absentee’. Black Bk. (1823), 178. He died, on his 72nd birthday, in October 1822, when his seat was taken over by Francis Mundy. He was remembered for having the ‘elegant manners and accomplishments of the perfect gentleman’ and to have been ‘zealously attentive’ to his county’s interests. Derby Mercury, 23 Oct., 6 Nov. 1822; Gent. Mag. (1822), ii. 472; (1823), i. 26-27. By his will, he left the bulk of his estate, and personal wealth sworn under £16,000, to his eldest son Edward Miller (d. 1834), whose son and namesake (1801-49), was Conservative Member for Derbyshire South, 1841-9. PROB 11/1669/227; IR26/964/321.