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MASKELYNE, NEVIL, brother of William Maskelyne (qv); b. 5 Oct 1732; adm. Jan 1740/1; his interest in astronomy commenced while observing an eclipse of the sun when at the School in 1748; St. Catherine’s Hall, Cambridge, adm. sizar 29 Nov 1749; migrated to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and thence to Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 13 Dec 1752, scholar 18 May 1753; 7th Wrangler 1754; BA 1754; BA 1757; BD 1768; MA 1777; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 2 Oct 1756, Major Fellow 6 Jul 1757; ordained 1755; Curate, Barnet, Herts., 1755; Chaplain, Royal Navy 1763; Rector of Shrawardine, Shropshire 30 Jan 1775 – Aug 1782; Rector of North Runcton, Norfolk 1782; FRS 27 Apr 1758, Copley Medal 1775; Astronomer Royal from 26 Feb 1765; foreign member, Imperial Academy of Science, St. Petersburg 1776; member, Institut Français 1802; went on behalf of Royal Society to St. Helena in 1761 to observe the transit of Venus, and on the voyage conceived the idea of the Nautical Almanack; established Nautical Almanack 1766, superintending its publication for 45 years; some ninety thousand astronomical observations of his were published in 4 vols, 1776-1811; inventor of the prismatic micrometer (in part anticipated by the Abbé Rochon); m. 21 Aug 1784 Sophia, dau. of John Rose, Cotterstock, Northants; d. 9 Feb 1811. DNB.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.