Nigel John Mussett

Nigel Mussett was born in Belfast in 1941 and subsequently completed his schooling in London and Salisbury. He was educated at Southampton, Oxford, Open and Lancaster Universities, and spent the whole of his teaching career as Head of Biology at Seaford College, Sussex, and Giggleswick School in Yorkshire.

He served as Chief Examiner in GCE Biology for many years as well as being involved in a wide range of extra-curricular activities at local, county and national levels, serving on various committees for over forty years. He was appointed MBE (Military) in 2001 for his work with the cadet forces and has been elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biology and The Linnean Society of London, being currently active in both of these key scientific organisations.

His particular fields of interest relate to Giggleswick where he lived for 41 years and he has researched and published material on Giggleswick parish church and the Settle-Carlisle railway. During 2012 he set up a new exhibition for the Museum of North Craven Life in Settle on the Settle and Carlisle railway and he has recently submitted his 2011 Settle-Carlisle Railway Resources Handbook for inclusion on the Settle and Carlisle Railway website.

He is married and now lives in Lymington, Hampshire. He currently edits the monthly Lymington Parish News and is active in two local railway groups.

List of publications to date:

1976 Seven Years Hard: Building the Settle-Carlisle Railway. (Dalesman, with W.R. Mitchell)

1980 Cadets at Giggleswick 1910-1980: An Illustrated History.

2003 The Locomotive 'Giggleswick' - LMS Patriot Class No. 5538. (periodic updates available)

2004 Bits, Scraps and All Sorts from Gigglesick and Beyond. (Editor and

illustrator)

2008 An Illustrated Directory to the Memorials and Inscriptions at St

Alkelda's Church Giggleswick 1585 - 2007. (Out of print)

2008 An Index of Graves and Memorials at St Alkelda's Church Giggleswick

1685 - 2007.

2011 Settle-Carlisle Railway Resources Handbook Illustrated. (Though now out of print, this has been updated and submitted for inclusion on the Settle-Carlisle Railway website as the Resources Directory.)

2012 An Illustrated Directory to the Memorials and Inscriptions at St

Alkelda's Church Giggleswick 1585 - 2011. (Out of print, but a revised text-only version has been included on the CD-ROM issued with each edition of the Giggleswick Parish Registers published in 2015.)

2015 Giggleswick Parish Registers 1800 - 1999. Published in hardback, paperback and CD-ROM versions. The printed versions comprise databases of the Parish Registers with entries arranged alphabetically and several other sections giving ancillary information about the five townships in the ancient parish. A copy of the CD-ROM is issued as an insert to each of the two printed versions; it lists entries in the databases of the Registers both chronologically and alphabetically, and also carries a revised text-only version of the author's Directory of Memorials and Inscriptions at St Alkelda's Church 1585-2011.

2016 The Stained Glass Windows of St Alkelda's Church Giggleswick (with Kathleen Kinder). 52 pages.

Leaflets:

2004 A Brief Guide to the Heraldry and Symbols in St Alkelda's Church

Giggleswick.

2005 The Embroideries of St Alkelda's Church Giggleswick.

2005, revised 2008

A Guide to the Churchyard of St Alkelda's Church Giggleswick.

2007 &

2009 A View of Batty Moss and the Victorian Railway Workings from

Ribblehead Viaduct.

2008 St Alkelda's Churchyard Heritage Trail.

2016 The Stained Glass Windows at St Alkelda's Church, Giggleswick. (With Kathleen Kinder). 12 pages, being a summary of the book version.