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Soon after taking orders, he emigrated to Canada (in 1836), where he taught for several years in high-schools and in the Provincial University. He attained a high reputation there. In 1865 he removed to the United States, and engaged in teaching the classics. After a time he became rector of an Episcopal Church at Elizabeth, New Jersey, and subsequently of one at Newburgh.
He was Provincial Grand Chaplain of Upper Canada and Master of the Union Lodge, Grimsby. He is listed as Grand Prelate of the Knights Templar.

Obituary.
FRANCIS L. LUNDY, Journalist.
Francis Lawrence Lundy, for the last 10 years one of the familiar figures of journalism in New-Jersey, and for some time past a member of tho City staff of The Times, died at 7 o'clock yesterday morning at his residence, No. 777 Eighth Avenue, of pneumonia complicated with paralysis of the heart. An afternoon of severe exposure on Staten Island on Tuesday last, combined with a sudden shock to the nervous system on his way home, brought on an attack of congestion, which passed into a pneumonia so severe that his physician had from the first little hope that he would ever rally.
Mr. Lundy was 38 years of age, and a native of Quebec, and was descended from the Lundys of Yorkshire, England. His father, Rev. James Lundy, D.C.L., was a prominent Episcopal clergyman, and resided for a short time in this City. Subsequently called to the rectorship of a parish at Newbury. N.Y., it was amid the fine scenery of the Hudson that young Lundy obtained his first impressions of the United States. Mr. Lundy entered Bradfield College, (England) in 1850, but retired in 1853, his health having given way from overwork. The predisposition to literary studies showed itself at an early age, and long before he entered upon the active life of a journalist he had became favorably known in the literature of fiction and belles-lettres as a contributor to Harpers' and Frank Leslie's publications and drifted into journalism by degrees, and the year 1870 found Mr. Lundy on the staff of the Newark (N. J.) Advertiser where he served for several years, and was finally sent to Trenton as correspondent during the session of the New-Jersey Legislature.
An ardent Republican, an energetic news gatherer, and a ready writer, his ability made itself felt in this capacity, and he became such an acknowledged authority on, and influence in, New-Jersey politics, that his services were sought by the New-York Tribune as Trenton correspondent. In 1869 or thereabout Mr. Lundy become a resident of Morristown, where, five years later, tho dream of his life came to pass, and he became the editor and proprietor of a Republican newspaper, the Morristown Republican, which wielded considerable influence in the politics of the State. In 1877 Mr. Lundy disposed of his interest in the paper, and in July last he removed to New-York.
In 1871 he married Miss Catherine Nesbitt, of Mendon, near Morristown. His mother still survives, and he has a sister living in this City. Among his professional associates Mr. Lundy was known as a cental and generous companion, a rapid and accurate observer of current events, and a clever and capable writer; energetic, scrupulously faithful to his engagements, and of sterling integrity. Owing to recent bereavements he had perhaps less power, possibly less wish to react against disease Tho remains of tho dead journalist will be removed to Morristown on Tuesday morning. The funeral services will take place at St. Peter's Church, (Episcopal) Morristown, at 10 A.M. The body will be interred in the village graveyard at Mendham - the home of his wife's family. The New York Times, February 23, 1879.⁵