Modern English biography

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_. MUSHET, ROBERT (2 son of Richard Mushet). _b._ Dalkeith 1811; second clerk and probationer melter in the royal mint, London 1832, senior clerk and melter 1851 to death; F.G.S. 1863; author of The Trinities of the ancients 1837; The book of symbols 1844, 2 ed. 1847; The coin book, Philadelphia 1873. _d._ Haywards Heath, Sussex 4 Sept. 1871. MUSHET, ROBERT FORESTER (youngest son of David Mushet metallurgist 1772–1847). _b._ Coleford, Forest of Dean 8 April 1811; assisted his father in his researches at Coleford; experimented with the alloy of iron and manganese known as Spiegeleisen from 1848; took out three patents for improving the quality of iron 16 Sept. 1856; claimed to have perfected the Bessemer process of refining iron by blowing air through it when in a molten condition; the Bessemer medal of the Iron and Steel institute was awarded to him 1876; took out about 20 patents for manufacture of alloys of iron and steel with titanium tungsten and chromium 1859–61; invented ‘special steel’ about 1870; author of The Bessemer-Mushet process 1883. _d._ 10 Sydenham villas, Cheltenham 19 Jany. 1891. _Jeans’s Creators of the age of steel_ (1884) 60–5; _Journal of iron and steel institute_ (1876) 1–4; _Engineering Review 20 July 1893 p._ 7 _portrait_. MUSPRATT, JAMES (son of Evan Muspratt, an Englishman, _d._ 1810). _b._ Dublin 12 Aug. 1793; apprenticed to a wholesale chemist in Dublin 1807; midshipman on board the Impétueux 1812, but deserted about 1814; a manufacturer of prussiate of potash in Dublin 1818; set up alkali works at Liverpool 1823; joined J. C. Gamble and built new works at St. Helens 1828, left Gamble and set up another manufactory at Newton 1830; opened new works in Widnes and Flint; retired from business 1857; was the chief founder of the alkali manufacture in the United Kingdom. _d._ Seaforth hall, near Liverpool 4 May 1886. _bur._ in Walton parish churchyard. _J. F. Allen’s Memoir of James Muspratt_, _with portrait_. MUSPRATT, JAMES SHERIDAN (1 son of the preceding). _b._ Dublin 8 March 1821; studied chemistry at Andersonian univ. Glasgow 1836, and at Univ. coll. London 1838; lost some thousands in a trading partnership in America 1842; worked in the laboratory of Liebig at Giessen 1843–5; Ph.Doc. Giessen 1845, a title never before granted to so young a man; F.C.S. 1843; founded the Liverpool college of chemistry 1848; succeeded to a share in his father’s business 1857; F.R.S. Edinb. 1844; F.R.S. Dublin; translated Plattner’s Treatise on the blowpipe 1845, 3 ed. 1854; discovered a proto-chloride of iron spring at Harrogate 1868, since known as Dr. Muspratt’s chalybeate; author of Outlines of qualitative analysis 1849; Chemistry, theoretical, practical, and analytical, 2 vols. 1853–61; _m._ 22 March 1843 Susan Cushman, American actress, _d._ 10 May 1859. He _d._ The Hollies, West Derby, Liverpool 3 Feb. 1871. _Biography of Sheridan Muspratt_, _by a London barrister-at-law_ (1852) _portrait_; _J. S. Muspratt’s Chemistry_, 2 _vols._ (1853–61) 2 _portraits_; _W. White’s Biography of S. Muspratt_ (1869) _portrait_. MUSSY, HENRI GUÉNEAU DE. _b._ Paris 1814; physician, came to England with Louis Philippe in 1848; physician to the Orleans family throughout his life; F.R.C.P. of England 25 Nov. 1859; resided at Claremont 1848–72; made investigations in Ireland about the famine fever of 1847; entertained at a banquet by the president and college of physicians of England; representative of the French académie de médecine at tercentenary of univ. of Edinb. 16–18 April 1884, when he was created LL.D.; wrote De l’apoplexie pulmonaire in Ecole de Medicine, collection des thèses 1844, vol. viii. _d._ St. Raphael in the Riviera Sept.