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 1867. He was sworn of the Privy Council, May 13, 1875.

MURRAY,, was born at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, April 13, 1817, and educated at a private school there. He began press life as a reporter on the Birmingham Morning News, under the editorship of his friend George Dawson; came to London in 1873, served on the Daily News, and was on the staff of the World. He acted as special correspondent to the Scotsman and the Times in the Russo-Turkish War. On his return he abandoned journalism for fiction. In 1879 he published his first long work of fiction in Chambers's Journal—"A Life's Atonement." "Joseph's Coat" appeared in 1880; "Val Strange" and "Coals of Fire," a collection of short stories, in 1881; "Hearts," and "By the Gate of the Lea," in 1882, the latter being the latest serial published in the original series of the Cornhill Magazine, In 1883 Mr. Murray published "The Way of the World.^*

MUSGRAVE,, K.C.M.G., is third son of the late Mr. Anthony Musgrave, M.D., treasurer of Antigua, and was born in 1828. He entered as a student at the Inner Temple in 1851, and in the following year was appointed Treasury Accountant at Antigua. He was nominated Colonial Secretary there in 1854. In Oct., 1860, he was appointed Administrator of the Colony of Nevis, and in the following April he was transferred to the Island of St. Vincent in a similar capacity. Sir A. Musgrave held the Governorship of Newfoundland from 1861 till 1869, when he was appointed Governor of British Columbia. In 1872 he was nominated Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, but was shortly after transferred to the Governorship of South Australia; this post he held till 1877, when he was transferred to the Island of Jamaica. In March, 1883, he was appointed to succeed Sir Arthur J. Kennedy in the Governor-General ship of Queensland. Sir A. Musgrave was nominated a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1871, and was promoted for his long official services to a Knight Commandership of that Order in 1875.

MUSGRAVE,, M.A., eldest son of the late G. Musgrave, Esq., of Shillington Manor, Beds, and Borden Hall, Kent, was born in Marylebone in 1798, and graduated in high honours, from Brasenose College, Oxford. On his return from extensive European travel he became the first curate of All Souls, Marylebone, and subsequently of the mother church in that parish; and in 1838 was inducted into his patrimonial benefice of St. Peter and St. Paul, Borden, which, after fourteen years' residence, he vacated in favour of his son-in-law. Mr. Musgrave was the first scholar who rendered the Hebrew Psalter into English blank verse, published in 1833, and subsequently wrote several works adapted to the capacity of farm labourers' children, one of them entitled "The Bird-Scarer." His "Interpreter of the Four Gospels," and a companion volume written exclusively for the enlightenment of agricultural populations, were widely circulated: but he is more generally known as the author of some twelve or thirteen volumes of travels in France. Among these are "The Parson, Pen, and Pencil" (he is his own illustrator), 3 vols., 1847; "A Ramble in Normandy," 1855; "A Pilgrimage into Dauphiné," 1857; "By-roads and Battle-fields in Picardy," 1861; "Ten Days in a French Parsonage," 1863; "Nooks and Corners in Old France," 1867; "A Ramble in Brittany," 1870; and a little brochure (anonymous), entitled "Viator Verax," exposing the impositions and indecencies of Continental travelling. In 1865 Mr. Musgrave produced a translation in blank verse of Homer's "Odyssey," which became a pendant in that metre to the