Sir Richard Musgrave, 3rd Baronet (6 January 1790 – 7 July 1859) was an Irish baronet and politician.

Early life

He was the eldest son of Sir Christopher Frederick Musgrave, 2nd Baronet and Jane Beere (a daughter of John Beere of Ballyboy,

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). Among his siblings was John Musgrave and Anne Musgrave. Musgrave's uncle, and namesake, Sir Richard Musgrave had been a collector of excise for the

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and the author of an anti-Catholic ''History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798'', and sat for Lismore in the Irish Parliament from 1778 to 1800. On his death in 1818, his Irish estates and baronetcy had passed to his brother, Musgrave's father. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1807.

Career

Musgrave was a

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for

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in the

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from 1831 to 1832 and, again, from 1835 to 1837. At the 1832 dissolution, Musgrave retired from county Waterford. He was elected unopposed as a Liberal in 1835 and stood down in 1837. Thereafter he was active in the local repeal campaign and in 1843 publicly resigned his commission of the peace in protest at the Peel administration's dismissal of magistrates who had attended repeal meetings. He succeeded to the baronetcy, of Tourin, in September 1826, which had been created for his uncle, Sir Richard Musgrave, in 1782.

Personal life

On 29 July 1815, Musgrave was married to Frances Newcome, daughter of

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, D.D., Primate of Ireland. Together, they were the parents of five sons: * Sir Richard Musgrave, 4th Baronet (1820–1874), who married Frances Mary Yates, the eldest of five daughters of

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, MP for

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. Her sister Mary Ellen Yates was the second wife of Robert Needham Philips, MP for Bury, and her youngest sister, Sophia Yates, was married to Louis Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, a cousin of

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and the youngest son of the Charles Tennyson d'Eyncourt of

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. * Christopher Musgrave (1823–1872) * Robert Musgrave (1830–1878) * Edward Musgrave (1834–1911), who married Anastasia Letitia Gee, a daughter of James Gee. * John Musgrave (1840–1870) Sir Richard died at

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, on 7 July 1859 and was succeeded by his eldest son

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Descendants

Through his eldest son Richard, he was a grandfather of Sir Richard John Musgrave, 5th Baronet (1850–1930). Through his son Edward, he was a grandfather of James Musgraves, and great-grandfather of Sir Christopher Norman Musgrave, 6th Baronet (1892–1956)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Musgrave, Richard 1790 births 1859 deaths Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Baronets in the Baronetage of Ireland Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Waterford constituencies (1801–1922) UK MPs 1831–1832 UK MPs 1835–1837