Samuel Musgrave

Samuel Musgrave (born Sept. 29, 1732, Washfield, Devon, Eng.—died July 4, 1780, Bloomsbury, London) was an English classical scholar and physician. Educated at the University of Oxford (B.A., 1754; M.A., 1756), Musgrave was elected to a Radcliffe traveling fellowship and spent many years abroad, chiefly in the Netherlands and France. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1760 and took an M.D. degree at Leiden in 1763 (as well as another M.D. from...