(1884) 330–2; _The Baptist handbook_ 1876 _pp._ 378–80.
MURSELL, JAMES PHILIPPO (son of William Mursell, ironmonger).
_b._ High st. Lymington, Hants 7 Sept. 1799; educ. Newbury and
at Bristol academy; Baptist minister at Wells, at Birmingham, at
Leicester 1826, resigned 1875 when he was presented with £1,600;
first chairman of Baptist union at Birmingham 1864; a founder
of the voluntary church society at Leicester 1836 and of the
Nonconformist newspaper 1841; took the name of Philippo, after
his friend James Philippo, a missionary in Jamaica; author of
Letters on education 1831; Reasons for not observing fasts, 2
ed. 1847; Robert Hall, his genius and writings 1854; A zealous
ministry, its character and its worth 1857. _d._ Leicester 2
Nov. 1885. _A. Mursell’s J. P. Mursell_ (1886) _portrait_; _The
Baptist handbook_ 1886 _pp._ 131–3.
MURTON, FREDERIC (son of Mr. Murton, commandant of marines,
Chatham). _b._ Chatham 24 March 1817; articled to colonel George
Landmann 1834, employed by him on Preston and Wyre railway 1837;
resident engineer upon the Paris, Rouen, Havre, and Dieppe
railway; engaged by Thomas Brassey on Paris, Lyons, Avignon
and Marseilles railway, presented by his employer with £5,000;
in practice in Paris; carried out a railway from Gladbach to
Venlo; examined railway projects in Portugal and North America;
M.I.C.E. 1 March 1864. _d._ 85 Addison road, Kensington, London
17 Jany. 1889. _Min. of Proc. of Instit. of C.E. xcvi_ 326–8
(1889).
MUSGRAVE, ANTHONY. _b._ Antigua Nov. 1793; ed. at Edmonton and
Edinb., M.D. June 1814; annual president of Edinb. medical
society; partner with H. M. Daniell at Antigua 1815; partner
with Robert Crichton 1824 to Crichton’s death 1827; member of
house of assembly 1817; treasurer of Antigua 1824 to death;
partner with Thomas Nicholson 1827 to death; wrote in the Medico
Chirurgical transactions of London, a history of the yellow
fever which broke out in Antigua June 1816; wrote articles in
the medical papers. _d._ Antigua 24 Feb. 1852.
MUSGRAVE, SIR ANTHONY (son of the preceding). _b._ 1828; private
secretary to R. J. Mackintosh, governor of Leeward Islands
1850–1; student at Inner Temple 1851; treasury accountant at
Antigua 1852, colonial secretary 1854–60; administrator at Nevis
Oct. 1860, and at St. Vincent April 1861; lieut. governor St.
Vincent May 1862; governor of Newfoundland April 1864, and of
British Columbia 8 Nov. 1869; lieutenant governor of Natal 25
May 1872; governor of South Australia 6 March 1873; governor
and captain-general in Jamaica 8 June 1877; governor and
commander-in-chief in Queensland 21 July 1883 to death; C.M.G.
23 Feb. 1871, K.C.M.G. 30 Aug. 1875, G.C.M.G. 6 June 1885;
author of Studies in political economy 1875. _d._ Government
house, Brisbane 9 Oct. 1888.
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