Thomas Musgrave (castaway)

Thomas Musgrave FRGS (10 May 1832 – 7 November 1891) was the captain of an Australian ship and later a lighthouse keeper, who was wrecked with the schooner Grafton in the subantarctic Auckland Islands, and cast away there for over 18 months.

He married Catherine Halcrow Sinclair in 1854 in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.

[1] Musgrave's final voyage as a ship's captain began in 1863, leaving Sydney on 12 November on a prospecting and sealing expedition to Campbell Island and the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand.

[1] Musgrave died at the age of 59, seven months after the death of his wife, with whom he is buried at Queenscliffe, Victoria.

During their 37-year marriage Catherine Musgrave bore 16 children, including three sets of twins.