Sir Philip Musgrave, 6th Baronet (c. 1712 – 5 July 1795) was a British politician. He inherited his father's title in 1736. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for

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from 1741 to 1747, during which time he married Jane Turton from Orgreave, Staffordshire on 24 June 1742. He inherited Kempton manor and park in

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from the family of his mother Julia Chardin. She was the eldest daughter of Jean Chardin, a luminary

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and

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traveller and the Court Jeweller, whose son and sole heir John became a baronet but died childless in 1755 having bought the estate in 1741.John Chardin, 1st Baronet
Accessed 2015-03-16 Notable issue: *Henrietta Musgrave m. 1774 Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, British industrialist, active in copper-smelting and coal-mining in Swansea, South Wales after which part of the settlement, Morriston became named. *Sir John Chardin Musgrave, 7th Bt. (1757–1806) David Barttelot gives a year of his living at his northern manor, Eden Hall, Edenhall,

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as his north of England home: 1794, which was during the period from the reign of

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until the early 1900s a Musgrave home. He died on 5 July 1795 at his manorial

estate Kempton Park (Kempton

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) which was sold by his son three years later to the

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gunpowder mills owner, Edmund Hill.Reproduced sentences from 107th Edition of Burke's Peerage - thepeerage.com
/ref>''A History of the County of Middlesex'': Volume 3. ed. Susan Reynolds Institute of Historical Research, London, 1962), pp. 53-57 Within a century

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was set up in part of the grounds the remainder of which was non-arable woodland and pasture, much of which became the Kempton Park Reservoirs SSSI.

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1710s births 1795 deaths Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for English constituencies Baronets in the Baronetage of England British MPs 1741–1747 Musgrave family {{England-GreatBritain-MP-stub

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