British tourists in Egypt

This photograph shows a party of British tourists in front of the Great Sphynx and Great Pyramid of Giza. The tourists were members of a trip in a yacht chartered by Alfred Edward Miller Mundy, the squire of Shipley Hall in Derbyshire.

The Shipley estate came into the Mundy family through the marriage in 1729. Shipley Hall was rebuilt in 1788 and in the same year Edward Miller Mundy I married his second wife Georgiana Middleton (d.1789).

Edward Miller Mundy I was active in local politics, serving as High Sheriff and as MP for Derbyshire for thirty-nine years. In 1803 he was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Derby Regiment of Militia and in 1817 he was a member of the Grand Jury at the trial of the men involved in the Pentrich Rebellion. His eldest son Edward Miller Mundy II, who inherited Shipley, did not follow in his father’s political footsteps but his grandson Edward Miller Mundy III (1800- 1849) served as MP for South Derbyshire. Edward Miller Mundy III was succeeded by his brother Alfred Miller Mundy (1809-1877) who had been Colonial Secretary for South Australia in the early 1840s. He and his son Alfred Edward Miller Mundy (1849-1920) both served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire.

The family’s main source of income was from property including collieries in Shipley, Heanor, Allestree and Mapperley. There was extensive coalmining in Shipley and in Heanor where the Miller Mundy and Charlton families were the main proprietors. The family also had property in Over Mayfield, Staffordshire, Sandon, Hampshire, Loxley, Warwickshire, London and other counties. Alfred Edward’s son Godfrey Edward Miller Mundy (b.1885) sold most of the estate to Shipley Collieries Ltd in 1923 and made his home in Hampshire. Shipley Hall was demolished during the Second World War.