Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet, KCB was a 19th-century British politician and diplomat.
Occupation
politician, art historian, philologist
Position held
Governor General of Canada, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
Born
February 16, 1805, 1805
Died
January 28, 1868
Overview
Sir Edmund Walker Head, 8th Baronet, KCB (16 February 1805 – 28 January 1868) was a 19th-century British politician and diplomat.
Early life and scholarship
Head was born at Wiarton Place, near Maidstone, Kent, the son of the Reverend Sir John Head, 7th Bt. and Jane (née Walker) Head. He succeeded to his father's title in 1838.
He was educated at Winchester College and Oriel College, Oxford, and in 1830 he was made a Fellow of Merton College. He was an Oxford scholar and tutor who published several books, including a book on the verbs shall and will. In 1866, Head published The Story of Viga Glum, which he had translated from the original Icelandic. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1863.
