Peter (“Peet”) Musgrave

Peter (“Peet”) Musgrave was a Cambridge woolen draper, but not a Dissenter. He was, however, like his friends Benjamin Flower, Robert Hall, George Dyer, John Audley, and Edward Randall, an active supporter of political reform in the 1790s. Dyer, in his Preface to his Life of Robert Robinson (1796), thanked Musgrave for his work “in connection with the petition for the abolition of the slave trade” (x). On 13 December 1792, a mob crying “God save the King” attempted to force open Musgrave’s house on Market Hill, their actions affirming Musgrave’s stature as a leader of the reform movement in Cambridge (Cooper 445).   Musgrave was the father of Dr. Thomas Musgrave, Bishop of Hereford and Archbishop of York, and Dr. Charles Musgrave, Archdeacon of Craven and Vicar of Halifax. See Charles Henry Cooper, Annals of Cambridge, 4 vols. (Cambridge: Warwick & Co., 1852), Vol. 4: 1688-1849, p. 445.