Lieutenant
Dudley
Field
Musgrave
RN
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Ancestors 
Brother of
William Anthony Byam Musgrave [half], Joyce Harriet Musgrave, Arthur David Musgrave DSO and Herbert Musgrave
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 22
in Bombay, India
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Jun 2017
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Biography
Dudley Field Musgrave was born on 5th January 1873 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. He was the eldest son of Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of South Australia, and his second wife, Jeanie Lucinda Field, daughter of David Dudley Field.
He joined the Royal Navy as a midshipman, reaching the rank of Lieutenant.
He contracted typhoid fever on a naval cruise and died in Bombay, India, on 4th May 1895. He was buried in Bombay on 9th April 1895[1] His memory is honoured with a plaque on an interior wall of the church near where his mother is buried in the cemetery at St Swithun Churchyard, East Grinstead, West Sussex, England.[2]
Sources
- ↑ "India Deaths and Burials, 1719-1948," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FGTV-WX7 : 3 December 2014), Dudley Field Musgrave, 09 Apr 1895; citing ; FHL microfilm 523,874.
- ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 82927919: Dudley Field Musgrave
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