Rodney Mundy

Admiral of the Fleet Sir Rodney Mundy
Sir Rodney Mundy
Born	(1805-04-19)19 April 1805 London
Died	23 December 1884(1884-12-23) (aged 79) London
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1818–75
Rank	Admiral of the Fleet
Commands held	HMS Favourite HMS Iris HMS Nile North America and West Indies Station Portsmouth Command
Battles/wars	Belgian Revolution Crimean War
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Rodney Mundy, GCB (19 April 1805 – 23 December 1884) was a Royal Navy officer. As a commander, he persuaded the Dutch to surrender Antwerp during the Belgian Revolution and then acted as a mediator during negotiations between the Dutch and the Belgians to end hostilities. As a captain, he was deployed to the East Indies Station and was asked to keep the Sultan of Brunei in line until the British Government made a final decision on whether to take the island of Labuan: he took the Sultan's son-in-law, Pengiran Mumin, to witness the island's accession to the British Crown in December 1846. He was then deployed to the seas of Finland, where he secured Björkö Sound in operations against Russia during the Crimean War.

Mundy became Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet and, in May 1860, in the Expedition of the Thousand, was present in Palermo, Sicily when Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Italian general and politician, led his volunteers into the city. Mundy went on to be Commander-in-Chief, North America and West Indies Station and then Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth.