Background
The sixth son of William Mushet and Margaret Cochrane his wife, he was born at Dalkeith on 10 November 1782. David Mushet was his brother.
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Robert Mushet
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He entered the service of the Royal Mint about 1804, and in the Royal Kalendar for 1808 he appears as third clerk to the master. Subsequently he held the post of first clerk to the master, melter, and refiner. He was also examined before Robert Peel"s committee in the House of Commons on the same subject, on 19 March.
He stated that he had constructed tables of the exchanges and prices of gold from 1760 to 1810.
In 1823 Mushet took out a patent (Number 4802) for preparing copper for sheathing ships by alloying it with small quantities of zinc, tin, antimony, and arsenic. He died at Millfield House, Edmonton, on 1 February 1828.
Mushet married Henrietta, daughter of John Hunter of Street Andrews, by whom he had issue.
