Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Mascall, Edward James
MASCALL, EDWARD JAMES (d. 1832), collector of customs, entered the civil service probably in 1779. He was appointed examiner of the outport quarter books on 12 Jan. 1813, and collector of customs for the port of London, at a salary of 1,500l. per annum, on 9 Oct. 1816. His books on the customs, which were sanctioned by the commissioners, did much to extend among merchants a knowledge of the numerous changes made between 1784 and 1817. He died at Yately Cottage, Hampshire, on 6 March 1832, after an illness of six weeks. Mascall married, on 19 Sept. 1793, at Croydon. Juliana Anne, eldest daughter of Robert Dalzell of Tidmarsh, Berkshire. She died on 24 July 1823.
Mascall published: 1. 'The Consolidation of the Customs and other Duties,' London, 1787, 8vo. 2. 'A Practical Book of Customs,' London, 1799, 4to; 2nd edit. 1801, 8vo. 3. 'A Digest of the Duties of Customs and Excise,' &c, London, 1812, 8vo; &c.
[Gent. Mag. 1793 pt. ii. p. 956, 1823 pt. ii. p. 188, 1832 pt. i. p. 379; Monthly Review, 1799 xxx. 469, 1801 xxxvi. 429; Civil and Military Establishments: Parl. Returns, 1822 (No. 328), xviii. 46.]