Sir Edmund Walker Head, eighth baronet

(1805-1868)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Head, Edmund, Sir, 1805-1868 NRA: Head, Sir Edmund Walker (1805-1868) 8th Baronet Colonial Governor DNB: Head, Sir Edmund Walker, eighth baronet (1805–1868), governor-in-chief of British North America and scholar LBT ID: EdHead1868 VIAF ID: 6025082 LOC ID: n87895450	B/BAP: 1805-02-16 DIED: 1868-01-28
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Educated at Winchester and Oriel College, Oxford, he was a fellow of Merton, a writer and civil servant; he was governor-in-chief of British North America (1858).
REFERENCES TO Sir Edmund Walker Head, eighth baronet: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter XI Found 1: ¶ 3