Nevil Story Maskelyne

Nevil Story Maskelyne studied at Wadham College. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is mineralogy. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Employment is recorded with University of Oxford. Positions recorded include member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom and member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom. Work by Nevil Story Maskelyne is recorded in the collections of Yale Center for British Art, J. Paul Getty Museum and Photography Collection. Distinctions recorded are Fellow of the Royal Society and Wollaston Medal.

• Honorific Prefix — Professor • Name — Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne • Born — 3 September 1823 • Birthplace — Basset Down House, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England • Died — 20 May 1911 • Place of death — Basset Down House, Wroughton, Wiltshire, England • Known for — Meteorite classification • Awards — Wollaston Medal (1893) Fellow of Wadham • Fields — Mineralogy • Workplaces — British Museum • Alma Mater — Wadham College, Oxford • Spouse — Thereza Dillwyn Llewelyn

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. 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.

Mervyn was the eldest son of Antony Mervin Reeve Story and Margaret Maskelyne, the daughter of the Astronomer Royal, Nevil Maskelyne. 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.

He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Cricklade as a Liberal, 1880–1886, and as Liberal Unionist, 1886–1892, and a member of Wiltshire County Council, 1889–1904.