Sir Francis Bond Head, 1st Baronet KCH PC (1 January 1793 - 20 July 1875), known as "Galloping Head", was Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada during the rebellion of 1837. Bond Head was a soldier in the British army from 1811-1825, and afterwards attempted to set up a mining company in Argentina. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada in 1836 in an attempt by the British government to appease the reformers in the colony, such as William Lyon Mackenzie, … Wikipedia
Francis Bond Head was descended from Dr Fernando Mendes, a Spanish Jew who accompanied Catherine of Braganza to England in 1662 as her personal physician. www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39157
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