Simon Musgrave of Hartley and

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(died 1597) was an English landowner,

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, and Member of Parliament for Cumberland in 1572. He was a younger son of Edward Musgrave of Hartley and his wife Joan, a daughter of Sir Christopher Ward of Givendale. He inherited the family estates of his nephew Richard Musgrave in 1555. He married Julian, a daughter of William Ellerker of

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. Simon Musgrave was constable of Bewcastle Castle. He made his sons depute or Captain of Bewcastle, including Thomas Musgrave. He entertained the Scottish rebel

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in 1593. He died at Edenhall in January 1597.'MUSGRAVE, Sir Simon (d.1597), of Eden Hall', ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603'', ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
/ref> His children included: *Christopher Musgrave, who married Joan Curwen, a daughter of Sir Henry Curwen of

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. Their son, Richard Musgrave, inherited his grandfather's estates. *Richard Musgrave *Thomas Musgrave

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People from Cumberland