Nevil Maskelyne (1611 – 30 August 1679) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1660.
11-782: Maskelyne may refer to: People [ edit ] Nevil Maskelyne (MP) (1611–1679), English landowner, MP for Cricklade Nevil Maskelyne (1732–1811), the fifth British Astronomer Royal Nevil Story Maskelyne (1823–1911), English geologist, MP for Cricklade Nevill Maskelyne Smyth (1868–1941), British Army office, recipient of the Victoria Cross Ryan Maskelyne (born 1999), Australian-born Papua New Guinean Olympic swimmer The Maskelyne family of British magicians: John Nevil Maskelyne (1829–1917), stage magician Nevil Maskelyne (magician) (1863–1924), son of John Nevil Jasper Maskelyne (1902–1973), stage magician in
22-486: A school in Marsh Lane which was built in 1841 and extended in 1907. Silverwood School , to the north of the village, is a Special Needs school built around a country house of 1812. The Church of England parish church is dedicated to St. Matthew and has a 15th-century tower, the rest having been rebuilt in 1832–3 to designs of Henry Goodridge . It has a font designed in 1850 by Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt , architect, who
33-544: Is a village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire , on the A342 about 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northwest of Devizes . The parish includes the hamlet of Tanis . The village now mainly consists of modern brick-built houses, but a number of 17th-century buildings still remain in the centre of the village, including the George & Dragon public house . This was pre-dated in
44-479: The 1930s and 1940s, son of Nevil Other uses [ edit ] Maskelyne (crater) , a solitary lunar crater Maskelynes Islands , in Vanuatu Maskelynes language Maskelyne Passage , Antarctica Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Maskelyne . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
55-490: The coming of the railway but has been restored, and is now used for leisure purposes. The small unsignposted hamlet of Rowde Hill, consisting of around 10 houses, lies around 1.3 miles (2.1 km) west of the village towards Sells Green and Melksham , at the junction of The Common and Berhills Lane. The parish has a village hall, built in 1887 as Rowde Reading Room and Coffee Tavern. Rowde C of E Primary Academy serves Rowde and nearby villages. Built in 2006, it replaced
66-568: The eve of the Restoration. He had an interest at Cricklade , four miles from Purton, as lord of the hundred and of the borough. In 1660, he was elected Member of Parliament for Cricklade in the Convention Parliament where he made no speeches and was not named to any committee. He did not stand in 1661. He was awarded the grant of a weekly market and four fairs a year at Cricklade on 18 March 1662, after he reported that he had seized for
77-645: The king some property of the regicide Sir John Danvers . In 1667 he endowed a parish charity and a Good Friday sermon. Maskelyne died at the age of about 68 and was buried at Purton; a marble wall monument is inside the church. He married firstly on 20 September 1630, Jane Norden, daughter of William Norden of Rowde , Wiltshire; they had two sons and a daughter. She died in 1633 (buried on 28 July). He married secondly on 7 September 1635, Sybil Jacob, daughter of Thomas Jacob of Wootton Bassett , Wiltshire, and they had four daughters. She died in 1652 (buried on 30 December). Rowde Rowde ( / r aʊ d / )
88-472: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maskelyne&oldid=1238791603 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nevil Maskelyne (MP) Maskelyne
99-628: The village by another pub, a timber framed and thatched building that was destroyed by fire in 1938; a replacement, the Cross Keys now stands in its place. On the outskirts of Rowde are the Caen Hill flight of locks of the Kennet and Avon Canal . The canal rises 237 feet by means of 29 locks, 16 of them in a straight line at Caen Hill. The canal was constructed between 1794 and 1810 and served to link Devizes with Bristol and London. It fell into disuse after
110-547: Was born in Rowde and lived for a time at Rowdeford House (now the home of Silverwood School). The six bells in the tower were cast in 1870 by John Taylor & Co. The building was Grade II* listed in 1962. Today the parish is part of the Rowde and Bromham benefice, which also covers Sandy Lane . Rowde is a civil parish with an elected parish council . It is in the area of the Wiltshire Council unitary authority , which
121-522: Was the son of Edmund Maskelyne of Purton , Wiltshire, and his wife Catherine Davys, daughter of Richard Davys of Little Mylton, Worcestershire. He was a student of Middle Temple in 1627. On the death of his father in 1630 he succeeded to an estate at Purton, where branches of the Maskelyne family had owned land since the 15th century. He avoided involvement in the Civil War, and did not hold any office until
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