18 Aug 2023                   
                Wife: Sarah Betts    
              Father:
              Mother:
             Husband: Peete Musgrave     
             Married: 1779                 in Cambridge  1 (see note 1)
                Born: ABT 1756               
          Christened: 1756                 in Cambridge  2
          Occupation:                      Tailor and Woollen Draper  
                Died: 1817                   
              Buried: 1817                 in Cambridge  2 (see note 2)
             Probate: 1840                 in Prerogative Court of Canterbury   (see note 3)
              Father: William Musgrave 
              Mother: Maria Peet   (1729 - 1768) 
Notes 
           M Child 1: Thomas Musgrave      
                Born: 1788                 in Cambridge  3
          Occupation:                      Fellow of Trinity College; Archbishop of York  3 (see note 4)
                Died: 1860                 in London  3,4 (see note 5)
Notes 
           M Child 2: William Peete Musgrave      
                Born: 1784                 in Cambridge  5
                Died: 1831                 in London  5
                Wife: Ann Thompson  b. 1785  d. 1868  

Sources:
(1) Ancestry Select Marriages. 
(2) findmypast.com website. 
(3) Alumni Cantabrigienses. 
(4) GRO index. 
(5) Ancestry family tree. 


Event Notes
Note (1) St Mary the Great
Note (2) St Mary The Great
Note (3) Left allotment of land in Trumpington to son Thomas Musgrave
Note (4) Name:	Thomas Musgrave
College:	TRINITY
Entered:	Michs. 1806
Born:	30 Mar 1788
Died:	1860
More Information:	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.)
Note (5) Jun 1860 St George Hanover Square 1a 178   age 72

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