LUNDY, ROBERT (fl. 1689), governor of Londonderry. He had seen service in the foreign wars before 1688, when he was at Dublin with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the regiment of Lord Mountjoy. Mountjoy and his regiment were well received in the north, and the citizens of Derry permitted him to leave within their walls a small Protestant garrison under the command of Lundy, who assumed the title of governor. Lundy declared himself an adherent of William ; and he obtained from him a commission confirming his appointment as governor. But from the moment Londonderry was menaced by the troops of King James, Lundy paralysed the defence of the city. On April 14, English ships ap peared in the Foyle with reinforcements for Lundy under Colonel Cunningham. Lundy dissuaded Cunningham from landing his regiments, representing that a defence of Londonderry was hope less; and that he himself intended to withdraw secretly from the city. At the same time he sent to the enemy's headquarters a promise to surrender the city at the first summons. When the
enemy appeared before the walls Lundy gave orders that there should be no firing. But the people flew to arms under the direc tion of Major Henry Baker and Captain Adam Murray, who organized the famous defence in conjunction with the Rev. George Walker (q.v.). Lundy made his escape by the connivance of Walker and Murray. He was apprehended in Scotland and sent to the Tower of London. He was excluded from the Act of Indemnity in 1690, but his subsequent fate is unknown.
See Rev. George Walker, A True Account of the Siege of London derry (1689) ; J. Mackenzie, Narrative of the Siege of Londonderry (169o) ; Rev. John Graham, A History of the Siege of Derry and Defence of Enniskillen, 1688-89 (Dublin, 1829) ; John Hempton, The Siege and History of Londonderry (Londonderry, 1860 ; Lord Ma caulay, History of England, vol. iii. (Albany edition of complete works, 1898).