Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mushet, Robert (1811-1871)

by Richard Bissell Prosser

MUSHET, ROBERT (1811–1871), of the royal mint, born at Dalkeith in 1811, was second son of Richard Mushet—a brother of David Mushet [q. v.] and of Robert Mushet (1782–1828) [q. v.] His mother was Marion Walker. He came up to London to assist his uncle Robert Mushet in the mint, and in 1833 his name appears for the first time in the ‘Royal Kalendar’ as ‘second clerk and probationer melter.’ Upon the reorganisation of the mint in 1851 when the ‘moneyers,’ as they were called, were abolished, Mushet was appointed senior clerk and melter with a residence at the mint That office he held until his death. He died on 4 Sept. 1811 at Hayward's Heath, and was buried there.

He was the author of:

1. ‘The Trinities of the Ancients,’ London, 1837.
2. ‘The Book of Symbols,’ London, 1844; 2nd ed., 1847.
3. The article ‘Coinage’ in the eighth edition of the ‘Encyclopædia Britannica;’ reprinted in ‘The Coin Book,’ Philadelphia, 1873.

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R. B. P.