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Francis Mundy
Francis Mundy (29 August 1771 – 6 May 1837) was a landowner, member of parliament for Derbyshire and a High Sheriff of Derbyshire.
Life.
Sir Francis Mundy, also known as Francis Mundy of Markeaton, was the elder of two sons and the heir of Francis Noel Clarke Mundy of Markeaton who was a magistrate and poet in Markeaton, near Derby
In 1820 Mundy was appointed High Sheriff of Derbyshire and then became a member of parliament for Derbyshire from 1822 to 1831.
In 1825
son of Sir Robert Burdett, 4th Baronet and his first wife. His mother Elizabeth died when he was young on 24 August 1747 and his father married again. When Burdett came of age his father was having the ancestral home of Foremarke Hall remodelled.
Burdett was the brother in law of Francis Mundy and a member of the private "Markeaton Hunt". In 1762–3 Mundy commissioned a set of six portraits. Each of the subjects was in the distinctive dress of the Markeaton Hunt, consisting of a blue coat over a