director of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton
Publications
Royal Pavilion: A Study in the Romantic, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1951 (141 pp, Brighton: Bredon & Heginbottom) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Crown, the Ship, and the Queen of Watering Places, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1953 (47 pp., Brighton: Old Ship Hotel) accessible at: British Library
Sussex, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1957 (London: Thames and Hudson) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Royal Pavilion: an episode in the Romantic , by Clifford Musgrave, published 1959 (revised and enlarged edition, xiv + 172 pp., London: Leonard Hill) accessible at: R.I.B.A. Library & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Regency Furniture, 1800 to 1830, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1961 (London: Faber and Faber) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The Pictorial History of Brighton & the Royal Pavilion, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1962 (Pitkin Pictorials) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries View Online
History and Treasures of Arundel Castle, Ancestral Home of the Dukes of Norfolk for 500 Years, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1963 (Pitkin Pictorials) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Royal Pavilion: a brief history and guide, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1964 (Brighton: Royal Pavillion) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/501653] & East Sussex Libraries
Gatewick, Steyning, Sussex, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1965 (pamphlet, London: Faber and Faber) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9539] & West Sussex Libraries
Adam and Hepplewhite and other neo-classical Furniture, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1966 (223 pp., London: Faber and Faber) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Life in Brighton from the earliest times to the present, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1970 (503 pp., London: Faber and Faber, ISBN-10: 0571092853 & ISBN-13: 9780571092857) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Arundel Castle: Ancestral Home of the Dukes of Norfolk for 500 Years, Containing: Arundel Castle and its Contents; And Arundel Castle and the Fitzalan-Howard Family, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1972 (Pitkin Pictorials) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Arundel Castle and its Treasures, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1974 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12572]
Arundel Priory 1380-1980, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1981 accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7754]
Life in Brighton from the earliest times to the present, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1981 (revised and enlarged, 522 pp., Chatham: John Hallewell Publications) accessible at: & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Life in Brighton, by Clifford Musgrave, published 1 April 2011 (republished from 1981 edition, 480 pp., The History Press, ISBN-10: 0752496891 & ISBN-13: 9780752496894) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Brilliantly researched and written, this is the definitive history of the city of Brighton. Divided into five sections - Fishermen and Farmers, Princes and Palaces, Late Georgian, Victorian Marvels and Mysteries, Battle Scene and Transformation - it shows how Brighton grew from a small fishing village. For almost thirty years Clifford Musgrave was the director of the Royal Pavilion, the Brighton Library, Art Gallery and Museum. In 1962 Faber and Faber commissioned him to write a comprehensive history of the town. It was published in 1970 to much acclaim. This new edition, published forty years after the original publication, includes a double introduction by the late Clifford Musgrave's son, Stephen Musgrave, and the editor of Victoria County History for Brighton and author of Georgian Brighton, Sue Berry. Two letters from Graham Greene to the author are also featured. Clifford Musgrave was the director of the Royal Pavilion for over thirty years. He initiated and led the post-war restoration of the Pavilion, for which he was awarded the O.B.E. in 1963. He was the author of many books and articles on Georgian and Regency furniture and architectural design, and he was given an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Sussex in 1968. Still a well-known name in the town, there is a bus named after him.