HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND (1793-1875)

—Traveller, e ayist, and biographer, served in the Engineers, went to South America as manager of a mining company, which failed, and then turned to literature, and made considerable reputation by a book of travels, Rapid Journeys acro the Pampas and among the Andes (1827), which was followed by Bubbles from the Brunnens of Na au (1834). He was Governor of Upper Canada 1835-37, but was not a great succe . Thereafter he contributed to the Quarterly Review , and repub. his articles as Stokers and Pokers—Highways and Byways , and wrote a Life of Bruce , the Aby in i an traveller. He was made a Baronet in 1836.