Nevil Story Maskelyne
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Scientific career
Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, Maskelyne taught mineralogy and chemistry at Oxford from 1851, before becoming a professor of mineralogy, 1856–95. He was Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum from 1857 to 1880.[3] He was made an honorary Fellow of Wadham in 1873.
Maskelyne was also a pioneer of photography and an associate of Fox Talbot.
The meteoritic mineral maskelynite was named after him.
Family
Mervyn was the eldest son of Antony Mervin Reeve Story and Margaret Maskelyne, the daughter of the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne.[3] The family adopted the name of Maskelyne on Nevil's coming of age as they had inherited that family's estate at Basset Down in Wiltshire.
Mervyn married Thereza Mary Dillwyn-Llewelyn (1834 – 21 February 1926) - Welsh astronomer and pioneer in scientific photography - on 29 June 1858.
Their daughter Mary married writer and politician Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster on 29 July 1885, and Hugh and Mary's granddaughter Vanda Morton published Nevil's biography in 1987 (see references). Their daughter Thereza was an advocate for domestic science who married physicist Arthur William Rucker in 1892.[4]
Political career
He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Cricklade[3] as a Liberal, 1880–1886, and as Liberal Unionist, 1886–1892, and a member of Wiltshire County Council, 1889–1904.
Selected publications
- A guide to the collection of minerals (1862)
- Mineralogical notes (1863)
- Index to the collection of minerals: with references to the table cases in which the species to which they belong are exhibited at the British Museum (1866)
- Mineralogical notices (1871)
- Crystallography: Treatise on the Morphology of Crystals (1895) (Kessinger Publishing January 2008 Template:ISBN)
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See also
References
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- Vanda Morton : Oxford rebels : the life and friends of Nevil Story Maskelyne 1823–1911 : pioneer Oxford scientist, photographer and politician, 1987 Template:ISBN
External links
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- 1823 births
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- English geologists
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
- Liberal Unionist Party MPs for English constituencies
- Members of Wiltshire County Council
- UK MPs 1880–1885
- UK MPs 1885–1886
- UK MPs 1886–1892
- Wollaston Medal winners
- Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford
- Meteorite researchers
- Artists' Rifles soldiers
- Employees of the Natural History Museum, London
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cricklade
- Maskelyne family