Nevil Story Maskelyne
Professor Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne | |
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 Portrait of Neville Story-Maskelyne taken by Henry Fox Talbot | |
| Born | 3 September 1823 |
| Died | 20 May 1911 (aged 87) |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Known for | Meteorite classification |
| Spouse(s) | Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn |
| Awards | Wollaston Medal (1893) Fellow of Wadham |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mineralogy |
| Institutions | British Museum |
Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne (3 September 1823 – 20 May 1911) was an English geologist and politician.[1][2]
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 and , 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 published Nevil's biography in 1987 (see references). Their daughter Thereza married physicist Arthur William Rucker in 1892.
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 ISBN 0-548-82536-X)
- Maskelyne, Nevil Story (c. 1863). Catalogue of the Collection of Meteorites exhibited in the Mineral Department of the British Museum. London: Woodfall & Kinder.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1912.
- ^ "Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1188.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). . Encyclopædia Britannica. 32 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 579.
- Vanda Morton : Oxford rebels : the life and friends of Nevil Story Maskelyne 1823–1911 : pioneer Oxford scientist, photographer and politician, 1987 ISBN 0-86299-456-X
External links[]
Works written by or about Nevil Story Maskelyne at Wikisource- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Nevil Story Maskelyne
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- 1823 births
- 1911 deaths
- 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