Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Baronet
Sir Philip Musgrave, 2nd Baronet (21 May 1607 – 7 February 1678) was an English politician who sat in the
Biography
Musgrave was the son of
In April 1640, Musgrave was elected
He was appointed the Governor of the Isle of Man by the Charlotte Stanley, Countess of Derby during the Manx Rebellion of 1651.[3]
After the Restoration, Musgrave was appointed Custos Rotulorum of Westmorland from 1660 until his death and was re-elected MP for Westmorland in 1661 for the Cavalier Parliament and sat until his death in 1678.[4] He was offered a peerage as Baron Musgrave, of Hartley Castle in the County of Westmorland, but did not take up the patent.[1]
Musgrave died at Eden Hall at the age of 70.[1]
Musgrave married Julia Hutton, daughter of Sir Richard Hutton of Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. He was succeeded in the baronetcy by his son Richard.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e John Burke A General and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the British Empire Vol 2
- ^ Willis, Browne (1750). Notitia Parliamentaria, Part II: A Series or Lists of the Representatives in the several Parliaments held from the Reformation 1541, to the Restoration 1660 ... London. pp. 229–239.
- ^ "MUSGRAVE, Sir Philip, 2nd Bt. (1607-78), of Hartley, Westmld. and Edenhall, Cumb". History of Parliament. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
- ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "W" (part 3)
Further reading
- Firth, Charles Harding (1894). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 39. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 421–422.
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