Sir Richard Musgrave, 3rd Baronet, of Tourin

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Sir Richard Musgrave, 3rd Baronet, of Tourin (6 January 1790 – 7 July 1859) was an Irish baronet and politician. He was the eldest son of Sir Christopher Frederick Musgrave, 2nd Baronet, and Jane Beere. His uncle, also named Richard Musgrave, was a Dublin excise collector and the author of an anti-Catholic History of the Irish Rebellion of 1798; he sat for Lismore in the Irish Parliament from 1778 to 1800. After his uncle’s death in 1818, the family estates and the baronetcy passed to Richard’s father. Richard Musgrave graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1807, served as High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1820, and was Member of Parliament for County Waterford from 1831–1832 and again from 1835–1837. He retired in 1832, was elected unopposed as a Liberal in 1835, and stood down in 1837. He became the 3rd Baronet, of Tourin, in September 1826, a title created for his uncle in 1782. He married Frances Newcome on 29 July 1815, and they had five sons. He died at Whiting Bay, County Waterford, on 7 July 1859 and was succeeded by his eldest son Richard. Through his eldest son Richard, he was the grandfather of Sir Richard John Musgrave, 5th Baronet (1850–1930), and through his son Edward, the grandfather of James Musgraves and the great-grandfather of Sir Christopher Norman Musgrave, 6th Baronet (1892–1956).