Musgrave, Thomas (1816-1835)

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Adm. pens. (age 18, sic) at TRINITY, July 6, 1804. [Elder] s. of Peete, tailor and woollen-draper, of Cambridge. B. there, Mar. 30, 1788. School, Richmond, Yorks. ' Matric. Michs. 1806; Scholar, 1807; B.A. (14th Wrangler) 1810; Members' prize, 1812; M.A. 1813; D.D. (per Lit. Reg.) 1837. Fellow, 1812; Junior Dean, 1821-2; Senior Dean, 1822-4; Junior Bursar, 1824-5; Senior Bursar, 1825-37. Senior Proctor, 1831-2. Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic, 1821-37. R. of Over, Cambs., 1823-5. V. of Great St Mary's, Cambridge, 1825-33. V. of Orwell, Cambs., 1835. V. of Bottisham, 1837. Appointed Dean of Bristol in 1837, but only held the post for a few months. Bishop of Hereford, 1837-47. Archbishop of York, 1847-60. Married, 1839, Catherine, dau. of Richard Cavendish, 2nd Lord Waterpark. Died May 4, 1860. Brother of Charles (1809). ‘These brethren, born in this parish [St Mary the Great], were fellows of Trinity College, and went out D.D. in the same year, when they preached the Commencement sermons. It is not probable that both these sermons ever were, or ever will be again, preached by natives of the parish in which the University church is situated.’ (D.N.B.; De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes, I. 324; C. H. Cooper, Memorials of Cambridge, III. 310.)

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