Nevil Story Maskelyne

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Neville Story Maskelyne

Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story Maskelyne (born September 3, 1823 in Basset Down House, Wroughton , Wiltshire , † May 20, 1911 in Basset Down House) was an English geologist , mineralogist and politician .

Life

Nevil 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 Maskelyne when Nevil came of age, having inherited the Maskelyne family property at Basset Down near Wroughton, Wiltshire. Nevil married Thereza Mary Llewelyn (1834 - February 27, 1926) on June 29, 1858. Their daughter Mary in turn married Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster on July 29, 1885. Hugh and Mary's granddaughter Vanda Morton published a 1987 biography of Nevil.

Scientific career

Maskelyne was educated at Wadham College , Oxford . From 1851 he first taught mineralogy and chemistry at Oxford before being appointed professor of mineralogy in 1856, a position he held until 1895. From 1857 to 1880 he was Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum .

Maskelyne was also a photography pioneer and an associate of William Henry Fox Talbot . He is also considered to be the first to describe the minerals andrewsite (discredited as mixed crystal in 1990), asmanite ( tridymite ), langite , liskeardite , oldhamite , osbornite and waringtonite ( brochantite ) and was a pioneer in the classification of meteorites with Gustav Rose .

Political career

Between 1880 and 1886 Nevil was a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Cricklade constituency, representing the Liberal Party , and between 1886 and 1892 for the Liberal Unionist Party . From 1889 to 1904 he was a member of Wiltshire County Council .

Honors

The vitreous impact rock maskelynite , which occurs in meteorites , was named after him.

In 1873 he was made an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College. Since 1895 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

In 1893 he received the Wollaston Medal from the Geological Society of London .

Works

  • 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 )
  • On Meteoric Stones . In: Popular Science Monthly , Volume, November 2, 1872 ( Wikisource )

literature

  • 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 .
  • Henry Alexander Millar, Arthur William Rucker: Maskelyne, (Mervyn Herbert) Nevil Story- (1823-1911) . rev. MC Curthoys, 2004.
  • Story-Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 32 : Pacific Ocean Islands - Zuloaga . London 1922, p. 579 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • HAM, AW D:  Story – Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Suppl. 2, Volume 3:  Neil - Young. MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1912, pp 433 - 435 (English).
  • Henry Alexander Millar, Arthur William Rucker, revised by MC Curthoys: Nevil Story Maskelyne. In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004, accessed May 11, 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maskelynite. (PDF; 812 kB) Data sheet Maskelynite from the University of Arizona
personal data
SURNAME Story Maskelyne, Nevil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Story Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English geologist and politician, member of the House of Commons
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Basset Down House, Wroughton , Wiltshire
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1911
Place of death Basset Down House, Wroughton , Wiltshire