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In about 1850, Musgrave went into business with his brother Edgar to trade tea and sugar, founding H & E Musgrave, Ann Street, Belfast. [1] [8]The novelist, Forrest Reid, was an apprentice as a young man in the firm and wrote, "Though generosity was not a Musgrave characteristic I liked Henry: towards his brother, Edgar, when I watched him saving the backs of envelopes and lifting little bits ...
John Musgrave & Sons It was founded in 1839 by John Musgrave and his son, Joseph, at the Globe Ironworks, in Bolton , historically in Lancashire , England. In 1854 the company supplied a twin cylinder horizontal winding engine , and in 1861 a single cylinder pumping engine to Chanters Colliery in Hindsford . [ 1 ]
Spinning machine for flax by James Mackie & Sons at the Museum of Industry (Industriemuseum) in Ghent, Belgium. Mackie International (originally known as James Mackie & Sons) was a textile machinery engineering plant and foundry in Northern Ireland until 1999. At its height, James Mackie & Sons was one of the largest employers in Belfast.
Murray, Sons and Company Ltd began trading in Belfast in 1810, and became a limited company in 1884. [1] By 1921, it shared most of the Belfast manufacture of tobacco, cigarettes, and snuff with Gallaher Limited, who had moved to Belfast in 1867. [1] Dunlop McCosh Cunningham took over the running of the works in the mid-1920s from his uncle.
On 2 November 1991, a bomb planted by the Provisional IRA exploded in the Military Wing at Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast. Two British soldiers were killed and nine others were wounded. Two children, a five-year-old girl and a baby of four months, were also injured by the blast.
Ballygammon, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Coordinates 54°34′03″N 5°58′37″W / 54.56750°N 5.97694°W / 54.56750; -5
He was the son of Col Thomas Cebern Musgrave Sr (Feb 27 1880 – Mar 11 1962) and Olivia Van Patten Dodge (July 17, 1882 – Aug 30 1969). He was the grandson of Philip Tell Dodge, the first president of the Mergenthaler Linotype Company .
Samuel Martin Stephenson (1742–1833), prominent Belfast doctor who founded a hospital, the medical society and medical school William Thomson , 1st Baron Kelvin (1824–1907), mathematical physicist, engineer, and leader in the physical sciences of the 19th century