Author: Musgrave, George Musgrave
Biography:
MUSGRAVE, George Musgrave (1798-1883: ODNB)
He was born at St. Marylebone, Westminster, London, on 1 July 1798, the eldest son of George Musgrave (1769-1861) of Marylebone and Shillington Manor, Bedfordshire, and his wife Margaret Kennedy (1770-1859), who had married in 1790. He was educated at Rev. Charles Parr Burney’s school in Greenwich and Brasenose College Oxford (matric. 1816, BA 1819, MA 1822). He was ordained deacon (1822) and priest (1823). He was curate at St. Michael Wood in the City of London in 1822 and at All Souls, Marylebone in 1824, before moving to St. Mary’s, Marylebone, in 1826. He was rector of Bexwell, near Downham, Norfolk (1835-8), and vicar of Borden, Kent (1838-54), after which he retired, first to Devon, then London, and finally Bath. On his father’s death in 1861 he inherited Shillington Manor, Bedfordshire. In retirement he travelled extensively in Europe, visiting France frequently but also the Alps, Appenines, Sicily, and the Danube. He found modest success in the burgeoning Victorian travel-book market with works such as Parson, Pen and Pencil(1848), A Ramble through Normandy (1855), A Pilgrimage into Dauphiné (1857), By-Roads and Battle-Fields in Picardy (1861), and A Ramble through Brittany (1870). He also published educational and devotional works, including Plain and Simple Hymns (1852), A Psalter for Private Commune with Self and God (1872), and two expository school works on difficult words and sentences in the gospels. It was, however, The Odyssey of Homer rendered into English Blank Verse (1865) that gained him most prestige. He married, first, Charlotte Emily Oakes (1807-72), the daughter of a senior EIC Madras official, on 4 Jan. 1827 at Marylebone. They had two sons and three daughters. He married, secondly, Charlotte Matilda Appleyard (1830-93) on 24 July 1877, at St. James, Paddington. She was the widow of Richard Hall Appleyard, barrister, and the daughter of Rev. William Stamer. There was no further issue. He died at 13 Grosvenor Place, Bath, on 26 Dec. 1883, leaving an estate of over £4000. His wife survived him and died at Paignton, Devon, in 1893. (ODNB 16 Dec. 2022; ancestry.co.uk 16 Dec. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 16 Dec. 2022; CCEd 16 Dec. 2022; MC 5 Jan. 1824; Morning Advertiser 28 Mar. 1872; Morning Post 30 July 1877; Bath Chronicle, 3 and 10 Jan. 1884, 27 Apr. 1893; Henry Alexander Glass, The Story of the Psalters [1888], 156) AA
Other Names:
- George Musgrave