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Musgrave (surname)
Musgrave is a surname originating in the former county of Westmorland, now part of Cumbria in Northern England, where there are two villages called Great Musgrave and Little Musgrave. Notable people with the surname include: *Alan Musgrave (born 1940), philosopher and academic *Andrew Musgrave (born 1990), British cross-country skier *Anthony Musgrave (1828–1888), British colonial administrator *Anthony Musgrave (entomologist) (1895–1959), great-nephew of the above *Bill Musgrave (born 1967), American football coach and former player *Charles Musgrave, American nanotechnologist *Christopher Musgrave (other), multiple people *Harrison Musgrave (born 1992), American baseball player *Henry Musgrave (1827–1922), Victorian philanthropist, Northern Ireland *Musgrave baronets, Sir James Musgrave, 1st Baronet, 19th-century businessman *Joe Musgrave (1908–1981), English footballer *John Musgrave (born 1948), an American Vietnam veteran, poet, counselor, and veterans' affairs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westmorland
Westmorland (, formerly also spelt ''Westmoreland''R. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British IslesVision of Britain/ref>) is an area of North West England which was Historic counties of England, historically a county. People of the area are known as Westmerians. The area includes part of the Lake District and the southern Vale of Eden. The county had an administrative function from the 12th century until 1974, when it was subsumed into Cumbria together with Cumberland, the Sedbergh Rural District, Sedbergh area of Yorkshire, and the Furness area of Lancashire. It gives its name to the Westmorland and Furness unitary authority area, which covers a larger area than the historic county. Early history Background At the beginning of the 10th century in England, 10th century a large part of modern day Cumbria was part of the Kingdom of Strathclyde, and was known as ''"Scottish Cumberland"''. The Rey Cross, Rere Cross was ordered by Edmund I (r.939–946) to serve as a boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Musgrave (cricketer)
John Musgrave Tattersall-Musgrave (?13 February 1845 – 12 March 1885) played first-class cricket in a single match for Cambridge University Cricket Club while a student at Cambridge University in 1868. He was born at Armley, Leeds, West Yorkshire and died at Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire. Musgrave's name developed over the course of his life: according to Cricketarchive, he was born as "John Musgrave Tattersall"; at Cambridge, he was "John Musgrave"; by the time he received his Master of Arts in 1872, he was "J. Musgrave Tattersall-Musgrave". There is also doubt over his birth: Cricketarchive states that he was born on 13 February 1845, while the Alumni Cantabrigienses publication indicates that was the date of his baptism. Musgrave was educated at Pocklington School and at St John's College, Cambridge. As a cricketer, he was a right-handed lower-order batsman and a right-arm fast bowler, bowling in the round-arm style. In his single first-class match in 1868 he failed to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972. Biography Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Barnton, Edinburgh, Musgrave was educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent school for girls near the market town of Oswestry in Shropshire, followed by the University of Edinburgh, and in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger from 1950 to 1954. In 1958 she attended the Tanglewood Festival and studied with Aaron Copland. In 1970 she became guest professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a position which confirmed her increasing involvement with the musical life of the United States. She married American violist and opera conductor Peter Mark (conductor), Peter Mark in 1971. From 1987 to 2002 she was distinguished professor at Queens College, City University of New York. Among Musgrave's earlier orchestral works, the Concerto for Orche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Musgrave
Theodore David Musgrave Sr. (born December 18, 1955) is an American former stock car racing driver. Pre-NASCAR Musgrave's father, Elmer, was a famous short-track racer in the Midwest who raced for over 25 years at Soldier Field, O'Hare, Waukegan, and Wilmot, Wisconsin before moving into asphalt late models in the American Speed Association (ASA) and ARCA. "I was really young at the time," Musgrave said. "But I can still remember sitting in the infield at Milwaukee and watching him race against drivers like Paul Goldsmith. He finally retired so he could help my older brother, Tom, and I get started." He began racing in 1977 at age 22 at Waukegan in a 1967 Ford Galaxy that he inherited from his brother. He immediately rebuilt the car into a 1967 Ford Torino and won the track's rookie of the year award. He and his father built a Ford Mustang using some tips from Dick Trickle to race the next season. By 1979 he was a regular driver on the Central Wisconsin (CWRA) circuit, finis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Story Musgrave
Franklin Story Musgrave (born August 19, 1935) is an American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California. In 1996, he became only the second astronaut to fly on six spaceflights, and he is the most formally educated astronaut with six academic degrees along with astronaut Lee Morin. Musgrave is the only astronaut to have flown aboard all five Space Shuttles. Early life Musgrave was born August 19, 1935, the son of Percy Musgrave Jr. (1903–1973) and Marguerite Warton Musgrave (née Swann; 1909–1982). He grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, but considers Lexington, Kentucky, to be his hometown. Musgrave has strong New England ancestral roots, descending from ''Mayflower'' passengers John Howland and John Tilley, as well as early Watertown, Massachusetts, settler Richard Saltonstall. Saltonstall's uncle was Richard Saltonstall, Lord Mayor of London. His 4th great-grand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Musgrave
Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California, to Canadian parents, and lives in British Columbia, dividing her time between Sidney and Haida Gwaii. She has been nominated several times for Canada's Governor General literary awards. Musgrave left school at 14, and had her first works published at 16. In 1986, at a wedding held in prison, she married Stephen Reid, a writer, convicted bank robber and former member of the infamous band of thieves known as the Stopwatch Gang. Their relationship was chronicled in 1999 in the CBC series '' The Fifth Estate''. Musgrave defended Al Purdy's collection of poetry, ''Rooms for Rent in the Outer Planets: Selected Poems, 1962–1996'', in '' Canada Reads 2006'', a nationally broadcast radio "battle of the books" competition. She teaches creative writing in the University of British Columbia's optional residency Master of Fine Arts program. Musgrave's archives are h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Musgrave
Simon Musgrave of Hartley and Edenhall (died 1597) was an English landowner, High Sheriff of Cumberland, 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 Ellerker. Simon Musgrave was constable of Bewcastle Castle. He made his sons depute or Captain of Bewcastle, including Thomas Musgrave. He entertained the Scottish rebel Francis Stewart, 5th Earl of Bothwell at Edenhall in 1593. He died at Edenhall in January 1597. His children included: *Christopher Musgrave, who married Joan Curwen, a daughter of Sir Henry Curwen of Workington Workington is a coastal town and civil parish in the Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. The town is at the mouth of the River Derwent on the west coast, south-west of Carlisle and north-ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Musgrave
Samuel Musgrave, FRS (29 September 1732 – 5 July 1780) was an English classical scholar and physician. He was born at Washfield, Devon, the son of Richard Musgrave. He matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford in 1749; and graduated B.A. from Corpus Christi College in 1754. He was elected to a Radcliffe travelling fellowship, at University College. Musgrave spent about a decade abroad. At the period when the Treaty of Paris (1763) was signed, Musgrave was resident in Paris. He formed a theory that British representatives had sold out to the French, allowing a treaty unfavourable to British interests. He brought his theory to the attention of Lord Halifax, and the Speaker of the House of Commons, when he returned to England in 1765. In 1766 he settled at Exeter, but moved to Plymouth to improve his career prospects. In an attempt to gain traction for his theory on the treaty, Musgrave published in 1769 a pamphlet in the form of an address to the people of Devon, accusing certai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamund Musgrave
Rosamund "Posy" Musgrave (born 28 October 1986) is a British former cross-country skier. Born in Cairo, Egypt, due to her father's work in the oil industry, she competed for Great Britain at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. She finished 41st in the women's sprint qualification event and 66th in the women's 10 kilometre classical event. She is the older sister of fellow cross-country skier Andrew Musgrave. In May 2015 she announced her retirement from competition and her appointment as an athlete manager with GMR Marketing. After retiring, Posy has been working for Eurosport Eurosport is a group of pay television networks in Europe and parts of Asia, owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through its WBD Sports unit, it operates two main channels—Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2—across most of its territorie ... commentating on their coverage of cross country skiing. She also coaches and supports the British Nordic Development Squad Posy got married near her fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Musgrave (economist)
Richard Abel Musgrave (December 14, 1910 – January 15, 2007) was an American economist of German heritage.Peter Mieszkowski, updated by the editors, 2008. "Musgrave, Richard Abel (1910–2007)," '' The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics'', 2nd edAbstract./ref> His most cited work is ''The Theory of Public Finance'' (1959), described as "the first English-language treatise in the field," and "a major contribution to public finance thought." Biography Early life Musgrave was born in Königstein im Taunus, Germany, into the family of a writer and translator Curt Abel Musgrave, a chemist by profession. His paternal grandfather (professor of linguistics at the Berlin Humboldt Institute Carl Abel) and maternal grandmother were Jewish but converted to Christianity. He turned from the field of literature, with an interest in becoming a stage director, to philosophy and economics at the Universities of Munich and Heidelberg (Diplom-Volkswirt, 1933), then at Harvard (Ph.D., 1937). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Musgrave (other)
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Philip Musgrave may refer to: * Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Baronet (1607–1678), MP for Westmorland and a Royalist army officer *Philip Musgrave (administrator) (1661–1689), Ordnance officer and MP for Appleby *Sir Philip Musgrave, 6th Baronet (c. 1712–1795), MP for Westmorland * Sir Philip Musgrave, 8th Baronet (1794–1827), MP for Petersfield and Carlisle See also * Musgrave (surname) * Musgrave baronets There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Musgrave, one in the Baronetage of England, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. As of 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Musgrave
Marilyn Neoma Musgrave (née Shuler; born January 27, 1949), American politician, is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives who served from 2003 to 2009, representing the 4th District of Colorado. Musgrave served on the Agriculture and Small Business Committees. In the 110th Congress, she served as Ranking Minority member of the Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture subcommittee. She also served as the Region Two representative for the Republican Steering Committee. She was the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Colorado. Musgrave lost her seat in 2008 to Democratic challenger Betsy Markey by a 56 to 44 percent margin. Musgrave currently works for the Susan B. Anthony List, a non-profit that supports anti-abortion women in politics. Background and early political career Musgrave was born Marilyn Neoma Shuler in Greeley, Colorado. She graduated from Eaton High School in 1968, and attended Colorado Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
