MUSGRAVE, Charles (son of W. Peete Musgrave of Cambridge, woollen draper). b. 1792 or 1793; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., tenth wrangler 1814; B.A. 1814, M.A. 1817, B.D. 1830, D.D. 1837; fellow of his college; V. of Whitkirk, Leeds 1821–36; select preacher at Camb. 1821–2; V. of Halifax, Yorkshire 30 March 1827 to death; prebendary of York cath. 16 Feb. 1833 to death; archdeacon of Craven 30 Dec. 1836 to death; author of Charges and sermons 1824–54. d. Halifax Vicarage 17 April 1875. The church of England photographic portrait gallery (1859) portrait 43; Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 111, 519.
MUSGRAVE, Frank. b. 1834; conductor at Strand theatre, London 1861 to about 1876, where he arranged music for H. J. Byron’s burlesque Esmeralda 28 Sept. 1861; composed the music for Burnand’s Windsor Castle, produced 5 June 1865, the first opera-burlesque in this country, also for his burlesque L’Africaine, produced 18 Nov. 1865; composer of The pantomime polka 1861; Le chevalier et sa belle, a song 1866; The excursion train galop 1862; A selection from The Messiah and The Creation arranged for the violin 1862; The smile and the tear, a ballad 1866; Boosey’s Burlesque series, music arranged by F. Musgrave 1861; Boosey’s Christy minstrel’s melodies arranged by F. Musgrave 1862; Boosey’s 24 popular dances arranged as duets 1862; his name is attached to upwards of 50 pieces of music 1861–84. d. Cambridge house, Bethnal green, London 11 May 1888. bur. Highgate cemetery 17 May.
MUSGRAVE, George Musgrave (eld. son of George Musgrave of Shillington manor, Beds. 1769–1861). b. St. Marylebone, London 1 July 1798; ed. at Brasenose coll. Oxf., B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; C. of All Souls, Marylebone 1824–6; C. of Marylebone 1826–9; R. of Bexwell, Norfolk 1835–8; V. of Borden, Kent 1838–54; travelled in France and Italy; founded 2 theological prizes at Clergy orphan school, St. Thomas’s Mount, Canterbury, and three at Clergy orphan school, St. John’s Wood, London; author of Translations from Tasso and Petrarch 1822; The book of the Psalms in English blank verse 1833; The crow keeper or thoughts in the fields 1847; The parson, pen, and pencil, 3 vols. 1848; A pilgrimage into Dauphiné, 2 vols. 1857; Continental excursions, cautions for the first tour By Viator Verax, M.A. 1863, 5 ed. 1866; Ten days in a French parsonage, 2 vols. 1864; Nooks and corners in Old France, 2 vols. 1867; The Odyssey of Homer, rendered into English blank verse, 2 vols. 1865, 2 ed. 2 vols. 1869; A ramble into Brittany, 2 vols. 1870. d. 13 Grosvenor place, Bath 26 Dec. 1883.
MUSGRAVE, Sir Richard, 3 Baronet (1 son of sir Christopher Frederick Musgrave, 2 Bart. 1758–1826). b. 6 Jany. 1790; succeeded Sept. 1826; M.P. co. Waterford 1835–7. d. Whiting bay, co. Waterford 7 July 1859.
MUSGRAVE, Sir Richard Courtenay 11 Baronet (2 son of sir G. Musgrave, 10 baronet 1799–1872). b. Eden hall, Penrith, Cumberland 21 Aug. 1838; ensign 71 foot 17 Nov. 1857, sold out 21 Oct. 1859; succeeded 29 Dec. 1872; lord lieut. of Westmoreland 27 Sept 1876 to death; contested East Cumberland 16 Feb. 1874, and 28 April 1876; M.P. East Cumberland April 1880 to death; colonel of royal Westmoreland militia 1 Feb. 1879 to death. d. 17 Cavendish sq. London 13 Feb. 1881.
MUSGRAVE, Thomas (son of W. Peete Musgrave, tailor and woollen draper). b. Slaughter house lane, Cambridge 30 March 1788; ed. at gr. sch. Richmond, Yorkshire; pensioner Trin. coll. Camb. 1804, scholar 1807, junior fellow 1812, senior fellow 1832–7, senior bursar 1825–37; 14 wrangler 1810; B.A. 1810, M.A. 1813, D.D. 1837; lord almoner’s professor of Arabic 1821–37; senior proctor 1831; V. of Over, Cambridge 1823; R. of St. Mary the Great 1825–33; V. of Bottisham 1837; dean of Bristol 27 March 1837; bishop of Hereford 5 Aug. 1837, consecrated at Lambeth 1 Oct 1837, revived the office of rural dean; archbishop of York 15 Nov. 1847 to death, enthroned in York minster 15 Jany. 1848; author of Charges and Sermons 1831–54. d. 41 Belgrave sq. London 4 May 1860. bur. Kensal Green cemet., portrait in dining room at Bishopthorpe.
MUSGRAVE, Thomas Moore. b. 1775; private sec. to lord Pelham, sec. of state for home department 1802; of Alien department in sec. of state’s office 1803–6, and again in 1816; sec. to the secretary to the government of Ireland 1806, when he retired on a pension; mail agent at Lisbon July 1816; agent for the mail packets at Falmouth; comptroller of the twopenny post office, London to 1833; postmaster at Bath 1833 to death; a writer in the Edinburgh and Quarterly reviews, and in Ackerman’s Forget-me-not; author of A candid appeal to public confidence 1803; Considerations on the re-establishment of an effective balance of power, 2 ed. 1813; Ignez de Castro, a tragedy from the Portuguese of A. Ferriera 1825; The Lusiad by L. de Camoens, a translation 1826. d. Bath 4 Sept. 1854. Bath Chronicle 14 Sept. 1854 p. 3.
MUSGRAVE, William. Barrister I.T. 23 June 1814; puisne judge supreme court of Cape of Good Hope 7 July 1843 to death. d. Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope 6 Oct. 1854.
MUSGRAVE, William Peete. b. 1813; ed. at Trin. coll. Camb., scholar, B.A. 1835, M.A. 1837; C. of Trumpington, Cambs. 1837–40; V. of Eaton-Bishop, Herefordshire 1841–54; resident canon and preb. of Hereford cath. 1 Feb. 1844 to death; R. of Etton, Yorkshire, and rural dean of Beverley 1854–78; warden of St. Katherine’s hospital, Ledbury 1877 to death; precentor of Hereford cath. 1878 to death; author of What preach we?; The Christian soldier, and various single sermons. d. Residence house, Hereford 11 April 1892. F. T. Havergal’s Fasti Herefordenses (1869) p. 66.
MUSGROVE, Sir John, 1 Baronet (only son of John Musgrove of London, merchant 1763–1820). b. 21 Jany. 1793; auctioneer and house agent at 5 Austin Friars, London 1824; alderman of Broad st. Ward, London 1842, resigned 17 Sept. 1872; sheriff of London and Middlesex 1843–4; lord mayor of London 1850–1; knighted on occasion of queen opening royal exchange 28 Oct. 1844; baronet 2 Aug. 1851, after queen’s visit to the city. d. Rusthall house, Speldhurst, Kent 5 Oct. 1881. I.L.N. xvii 357 (1850) portrait.