Born in Queensland, Australia, he is known for penning Bibliography of Australian Entomology (1932).
[1] His father was Anthony Musgrave, a civil servant, and his mother was Elizabeth Anne (née Colles).
[4] He worked at the Australian Museum,[5] initially as a librarian for a year,[2] before climbing up the ranks to become Assistant Entomologist,[6] and eventually the museum's entomologist,[7] a title later changed to "Curator of Insects and Arachnids".
[8] He displayed much knowledge on insects[9] and arachnids; his area of expertise were ticks and venomous spiders.
Musgrave was compiler of all of the Australian Science Abstracts' animal-related articles for around twenty years, until in 1957 when the publication folded.