Famous People with Name Maudslay

Henry Maudslay            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Henry Maudslay: was a British machine tool innovator, tool and die maker, and inventor. He is considered a founding father of machine tool technology.His father, also named Henry, served as a wheelwright in the Royal Engineers, but was wounded in action so he became a storekeeper at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London. There he married a young widow, Margaret Laundy. They had seven children and young Henry was the fifth. Henry’s father died in 1780. Henry began filling cartridges at the Arsenal, when he was twelve. After two years, he was transferred to a carpenter’s shop followed by a blacksmith’s forge, where at the age of fifteen he began training as a blacksmith. He seems to have specialised in the lighter, more complex kind of forge work. [1]

Alfred Percival Maudslay            Origin/Culture/Country: British

Alfred Percival Maudslay: was a British colonial diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. He was one of the first Europeans to study Mayan ruins.Maudslay was born at Lower Norwood Lodge, near London, England into a wealthy engineering family descended from Henry Maudslay. He was educated at Royal Tunbridge Wells and Harrow School, and studied natural sciences at Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1868-72, where he was acquainted with John Willis Clark, then Secretary of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

Algernon Maudslay            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Algernon Maudslay: was a British sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.