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          Nevil Maskelyne was an English astronomer who measured the Earth's density in a famous experiment at Schiehallion....

          Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Maskelyne, Nevil

          ​MASKELYNE, NEVIL (1732–1811), astronomer royal, was the third son of Edmund Maskelyne of Purton in Wiltshire, by his wife Elizabeth Booth, and was born in London on 6 Oct.

          1732.

          Nevil Maskelyne was the father of Jasper Maskelyne, who continued the family tradition of professional magic.

        1. Nevil Maskelyne was the father of Jasper Maskelyne, who continued the family tradition of professional magic.
        2. Nevil Maskelyne was appointed 5th Astronomer Royal in In the same year he started work on The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris.
        3. Nevil Maskelyne was an English astronomer who measured the Earth's density in a famous experiment at Schiehallion.
        4. John Nevil Maskelyne (bd) was an English stage magician, inventor and a co-lateral descendant of the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne.
        5. No definitive biography of Maskelyne has been written but accounts of his life and work are to be found in standard encyclopedic works such as.

          6. From Westminster School he entered in 1749 Catharine Hall, Cambridge, but migrated to Trinity College, whence he graduated in 1754 as seventh wrangler, taking degrees of M.A., B.D., and D.D. successively in 1757, 1768, and 1777. He was elected a fellow of his college in 1757, and admitted to the Royal Society in 1758.

          Having been ordained to the curacy of Barnet in Hertfordshire in 1755, he was presented by his nephew, Lord Clive, in 1775 to the living of Shrawardine in Shropshire, and by his college in 1782 to the rectory of North Runcton, Norfolk.

          The solar eclipse of 25 July made an astronomer of him, as it did of Lalande and Messier; he studied mathematics assiduously, and about 1755 established close relations with Bradley, He lear