Musters
Musters is a surname. People with the surname include: * George Chaworth Musters (1841–1879), British Royal Navy commander and traveller * Marcel Musters (born 1959), Dutch actor * Pauline Musters (1878–1895), the shortest woman ever recorded * William Musters (1810–1870), English cricketer See also * Muster (other) Muster may refer to: Military terminology * Muster (military), a process or event for the accounting for members in a military unit * Muster list, list of the functions for team members * A mustering, in military terminology, is a specialised for ...

George Chaworth Musters
George Chaworth Musters (1841–1879) was a British Royal Navy commander and traveller, known as the "King of Patagonia". Life He was born in Naples while his parents were travelling, 13 February 1841, the son of John George Musters of Wiverton Hall, Nottinghamshire, formerly of the 10th Royal Hussars, and his wife Emily, daughter of Philip Hamond of Westacre, Norfolk. His paternal grandparents were John Musters of Colwick Hall, Nottinghamshire, "the king of gentlemen huntsmen", who had married in 1805 Mary Anne Chaworth, heiress of Chaworth of Annesley Hall, Nottinghamshire, the "Mary" of Lord Byron's poem, '' The Dream''. Musters was one of three children. His father dying in 1842, and his mother in 1845, Musters was brought up mainly by his mother's brothers, one of whom, Robert Hamond, had sailed with Admiral Robert Fitzroy in HMS ''Beagle''. He went to school at Saxby's in the Isle of Wight, and Green's at Sandgate, Kent, and then to Burney's academy at Gosport, to prepare f ...
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Pauline Musters
Pauline Musters (February 26, 1878 – March 1, 1895) was a Dutch woman. She is recognized by the Guinness World Records as the shortest woman ever recorded, standing at only tall. Life Musters was born in 1878 in Ossendrecht in North Brabant province, The Netherlands. She was the seventh child of carpenter Michiel Musters (1843–1889) and Anna Maria Couwenbergh. She had five sisters and three brothers. At birth she measured only 11.8 in (30 cm). At age nine she was 1 ft 9.5 in (54.61 cm) and weighed only 4 lb 5 oz. When she was two years old, her father began showing her on fun fairs, and she toured since childhood. Pauline's celebrity meant unexpected wealth for her family: impresario Émile Grandsart offered her father the fourfold annual salary to let her appear in Grandsart's travelling theatre. Michiel Musters could buy several plots of land and on the facade of the house he built on Ossendrecht village street there were the words ...
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Marcel Musters
Marcel Musters (born 6 June 1959) is a Dutch actor. In 2019, he won the Golden Calf for Best Actor award for his role in the film ''God Only Knows'' directed by Mijke de Jong. In 2020, a print of his hand was added to the 'Walk of Fame' in the Vinkenburgstraat in Utrecht, Netherlands. Awards * 2019: Golden Calf for Best Actor, ''God Only Knows'' Selected filmography * 1990: '' Crocodiles in Amsterdam'' * 1996: '' Laagland'' * 2004: '' The Preacher'' * 2005: ''Offers'' * 2010: ''Dik Trom'' * 2019: ''God Only Knows "God Only Knows" is a song by American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album ''Pet Sounds''. Written by Brian Wilson and Tony Asher, it is a Baroque-style love song distinguished for its harmonic innovation and its subversion of typica ...'' References External links * Living people 1959 births 20th-century Dutch male actors 21st-century Dutch male actors Dutch male actors Dutch male film actors Dutch male television actors Gold ...
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William Musters
William Musters Chaworth Musters (1 January 1810 – 16 October 1870) was an English cricketer who was associated with Oxford University Cricket Club and made his first-class debut in 1829. He also played for Nottinghamshire. Musters was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He became a Church of England priest and was rector Rector (Latin for the member of a vessel's crew who steers) may refer to: Style or title *Rector (ecclesiastical), a cleric who functions as an administrative leader in some Christian denominations *Rector (academia), a senior official in an edu ... of Colwick Old Church 1834–60. References 1810 births 1870 deaths English cricketers English cricketers of 1826 to 1863 Oxford University cricketers Nottinghamshire cricketers Nottingham Cricket Club cricketers North v South cricketers Gentlemen of Nottinghamshire cricketers Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 19th-century English Anglican priests People from Colwick Crickete ...
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