PAPERS OF THOMAS MUSGRAVE (1788-1860)

Musgrave was the son of W. Peet Musgrave and his wife Sarah, tailor adn woollen draper of Cambridge and was educated at the Grammar School, Richmond YKSNR under Dr. Tate. See entry in DNB for Cambridge career including appointment in 1821 as Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic. He entered holy orders and was incumbent of Trinity College Livings - Over (1823), St. Mary's Cambridge (1825-1833) and Bottisham (1837). In 1837 he became dean of Bristol and other preferments followed - bishop of Hereford 1837-1847 and archbishop of York 1847-1860. He died 4 May 1860. He married in 1839 Catherine daughter of Richard Cavendish, Second Lord Waterpark; his widow died 16 May 1863. Francis Ethelreda, eldest daughter of the Rev. Canon Vernon Musgrave of Hascombe, Surrey, married in 1886 Thomas Lewis Kekewich Edge of Strelley and this marriage probably accounts for the presence of the Musgrave papers in the Edge collection.