134 Neril Maskelyne, D.D., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal. 



with that of his wife, Sophia Eose (to whom he was married in 

 1783), is by John Russell, E.A., and was a gift by the artist to 

 him. 



A large oil portrait of Mrs. Maskelyne and their daughter 

 Margaret as a baby on her lap, at Basset Down, is by Yanderpuyl, 

 painted in 1786. 



A bust of Dr. Maskelyne, at Basset Down, by Sievier, in 1830, 

 taken from the two pictures, is said by his cousin, J. Prowett, 

 " to give the idea of a larger man, and the face too long. Dr. 

 Maskelyne's face was round, which, together with a certain play- 

 fulness of manner, preserved an air of youth to a late period." 



There are two engravings published from portraits of Dr. 

 Maskelyne, one from the portrait at the Royal Society, and 

 another engraving like Russell's crayon, but omitting the obser- 

 vatory, which appeared in the European Magazine. 



In the Dictionary of National Biography, under Maskelyne, is the 

 following mis-statement : — 



" He married about 1785 a daughter of Henrj Turner of Botwell, Middlesex, 

 a sister of Lady Booth." 



Hannah Turner, here mentioned, was the first wife of the Rev. 

 George Booth, who, after his accession to the title of baronet, 

 married, as his second wife, Letitia, daughter and coheir with her 

 sister Sophia, Dr. Maskelyne's wife, of J ohn Rose, of Ootterstock, 

 Co. Northampton. 



List of Works by Dr. Maskelyne. 



The British Mariner's Guide containing .... Instructions for the Dis- 

 covery of the Longitude .... by observations of the distance of the 

 moon from the sun and stars, taken with Hadley's Quadrant. To which 

 are added an Appendix .... and a set of Astronomical Tables. 4to, 

 London, 1763. 



An account of the going of Mr. John Harrison's Watch, at the Royal Observatory, 

 from May 6th, 1776, to March 4th, 1767. Together with original obser- 

 vations and calculations of the same. Appendix, containing observations of 

 equal altitudes of the sun, &c). Two pts. J. Nourse, London, 1767. 4to. 

 [Watt says 1768.] 



