Constituency : Cricklade 1880-92 ( from 1886 Liberal Unionist )
Mervyn recaptured one of the Cricklade seats from the Tories.
Mervyn was the grandson of the Astronomer Royal Nevil Maskelyne, the villain in Longitude. The family had large estates in the West Country. He was educated at Oxford and became a professor of mineralogy there. In 1857 he became Keeper of Minerals at the British Museum. A meteriotic mineral was named maskelynite after him. He was also an early pioneer of photography . He authored a number of works on minerals.
Mervyn served on Wiltshire County Council from 1889 to 1904.
He died in 1911 aged 87.
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