Musgrave Brisco
{{Short description|British politician}}
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Musgrave Brisco (1791 – 9 May 1854{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090810231405/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Hcommons2.htm |archive-date=10 August 2009 |title=House of Commons constituencies beginning with "H" (part 2) |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons page |url-status=usurped |access-date=19 April 2009}}) was a British Conservative Party politician.
A former mayor of Hastings.{{Cite web |url=http://www.1066.net/summerfields/history-of-summerfields.htm |title=History of Bohemia House and Summerfields}}
In the 1830s, he assisted his brother, Wastel Brisco, with the development of Bohemia House in Summerfields, St Leonards-on-Sea, and was appointed High Sheriff of Sussex for 1843. He was then elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Hastings at a by-election in 1844,{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |author-link=F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 |orig-date=1977 |edition=2nd |year=1989 |publisher=Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-26-4 |page=146}} and held the seat until he resigned from Parliament through appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 5 May 1854.
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Category:Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
Category:High sheriffs of Sussex
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