1. Sir Anthony Musgrave was a colonial administrator and governor.
15 Facts About Anthony Musgrave
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Anthony Musgrave died in office as Governor of Queensland in 1888.
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Anthony Musgrave was born at St John's, Antigua, the third of 11 children of Anthony Musgrave and Mary Harris Sheriff.
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Anthony Musgrave was recognised for his "capacity and zeal", and quickly promoted, administering in turn the British West Indies territories of Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines.
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Anthony Musgrave found a colony in dire economic straits, containing a destitute population.
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Anthony Musgrave proved to be both a capable administrator, and an able placater of the assembly's notoriously contentious members.
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Anthony Musgrave did a brief stint as governor of the South African colony of Natal.
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Anthony Musgrave would govern the colony for the next six years, focusing much of his attention on improving its cultural life.
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Anthony Musgrave initiated the Jamaica Scholarship, and was instrumental in establishing the Institute of Jamaica, dedicated to fostering and encouraging the development of arts, science, and literature.
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The Anthony Musgrave Medal, awarded by the institute for excellence in these fields, was named in his honour in 1897.
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Anthony Musgrave travelled with premier Samuel Griffith to visit the northern parts of the colony including Cooktown, Port Douglas, Cairns, Townsville, Charters Towers, Mourilyan Harbour, Cardwell, and Bowen.
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Governor Anthony Musgrave was at the point of retiring from the colonial service when he died at his desk in Brisbane on 9 October 1888 from strangulation of the bowel.
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Anthony Musgrave's funeral was held on 10 October 1888 at St John's Pro-Cathedral, after which he was interred in Brisbane's Toowong General Cemetery on the principal slope near to the grave of Governor Blackall, the location being personally selected by premier Thomas McIlwraith.
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Anthony Musgrave married in 1854 to Christiana Elizabeth, daughter of the Hon.
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Priot to his tenure in British Columbia, Anthony Musgrave married his second wife, Jeanie Lucinda Field in San Francisco.