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See also:SAMUEL See also:MUSGRAVE (1732-1780) , See also:English classical See also:scholar and physician, was See also:born at Washfield, in See also:Devonshire, on the 29th of See also:September 1732 . Educated at See also:Oxford and elected to a See also:Radcliffe travelling fellowship, he spent several years abroad . In 1766 he settled at See also:Exeter, but not See also:meeting with professional success removed to See also:Plymouth . He ruined his prospects, however, by the publication of a pamphlet in the See also:form of an address to the See also:people of Devonshire, in which he accused certain members of the English See also:ministry of having been bribed by the See also:French See also:government to conclude the See also:peace of 1763, and declared that the See also:Chevalier d'Eon de See also:Beaumont, French See also:minister plenipotentiary to See also:England, had in his See also:possession documents which would prove the truth of his assertion . De Beaumont repudiated all knowledge of any such transaction and of See also:Musgrave himself, and the See also:House of See also:Commons in 1770 decided that the See also:charge was unsubstantiated . Thus discredited, Musgrave gained a See also:precarious living in See also:London by his See also:pen until his See also:death, in reduced circumstances, on the 5th of See also:July 1780 . He wrote several medical See also:works, now forgotten; and his edition of See also:Euripides (1778) was a considerable advance on that of See also:Joshua See also:Barnes . See W . Mank, See also:Roll of the Royal See also:College of Physicians, ii . (1878) . |
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