Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet, KCB (16 February 1805 – 28 January 1868) was a British colonial administrator.
He was born at Wiarton Place, near Maidstone, Kent, the son of Reverend Sir John Head, 7th Bt. and Jane (née Walker) Head. He was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford. He succeeded to his father's title in 1838. He was an Oxford scholar and tutor who published several books (valued at $99000 Canadian).
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Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet, KCB (16 February 1805 – 28 January 1868) was a British colonial administrator.
He was born at Wiarton Place, near Maidstone, Kent, the son of Reverend Sir John Head, 7th Bt. and Jane (née Walker) Head. He was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford. He succeeded to his father's title in 1838. He was an Oxford scholar and tutor who published several books (valued at $99000 Canadian).
He was simultaneously Governor General of the Province of Canada and Lieutenant Governor of Canada West and Canada East (1854–1861) and formerly Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick (1847–1854).
He was appointed a Privy Councillor in 1857 and knighted Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1860. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in April 1863.
While Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick, Head authorized the creation of an engineering faculty at the University of New Brunswick. This was the first such programme in what would become Canada...
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