HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, 8TH BART. (1805 1868), English colonial governor and writer on art, born at Ray leigh, Essex, was educated at Winchester school and Oriel col lege, Oxford, and became fellow of Merton college. He had a dis tinguished career in the home and colonial service, and was gov ernor-general of Canada from 1854 to 1861. He received many honours. Head died in London on Jan. 28, 1868. He edited F. T. Kugler's Handbook of Painting of the German, Flemish, Dutch, Spanish and French Schools (1854) and the Essays on the Administrations of Great Britain (1864) , written by his lifelong friend, Sir George Cornewall Lewis. His translation from the Icelandic of Viga Glum's Saga appeared in 1866.