Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet (1804–68)

Statesman and scholar. BA (Oriel College), Oxford, 1827; fellow, Merton College, 1830–8. Travelled in Italy, Germany, and Spain, 1828–35. Entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1835. Appointed assistant poor-law commissioner, 1836; chief commissioner, 1841–7. Succeeded to the baronetcy in 1838. Lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick, 1848–54. Governor-in-chief of British North America, 1854–61. Returned to England in 1861. Civil service commissioner, 1862–8. Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1863–8. FRS 1863.