Reverend Malise Reginald Graham (1833-1895)

The second son of Rt. Hon. Sir James Robert George Graham, 2nd Baronet of Netherby, Malise Reginald Graham was born 15 February 1833 in London. Educated at Eton and Trinity College Cambridge (BA, 1855; MA, 1859), he was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Winchester in 1861 and became a priest the following year. From 1861 to 1862 he was Curate of Farnham, Surrey, and from 1863 to 1895, Rector of Athuret, Cumberland. According to Crockford, the living was in the gift of Reverend Graham’s brother, and the income from tithes averaged £656 per annum.

On 19 June 1862 he married his first cousin, Miss Agnes Musgrave, 2nd daughter of Sir George Musgrave, 10th Baronet of Edenhall in the county of Cumberland. Miss Musgrave’s mother was Charlotte, daughter of Sir James Graham, 1st Bart. of Netherby.

Rev. Malise Reginald Graham died 18 November 1895, having had issue three sons and two daughters.

[Sources: Clergy List (1863), Crockford’s Clerical Directory (1891), Burke’s Peerage and Baronetage and Alumni Cantabrigienses, 1752-1900.]

Photographed by Camille Silvy on 30 April 1862.