Arthur Thomas Maskell (28 March 1894 – 16 June 1970) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).Holmesby & Main (2009), p.556.
Family The son of Arthur Maskell (1849–1917),Deaths: Maskell, (Saturday, 15 September 1917), p.5. and Elizabeth Margaret Maskell (1856–1921), née Fuzzard,Marriages: Maskell—Fuzzard, The Leader, (Saturday, 4 December 1875), p.25.Her father, John Hickey (1825-1856), died three months after her birth, and her mother Jane Hickey (1836-1912), née Colliver, remarried — to John Newman Fuzzard (1829-1909) — on 30 June 1857; consequently, by the time of her marriage to Arthur Maskell, she was known as "Elizabeth Margaret Fuzzard", rather than "Elizabeth Margaret Hickey".Deaths, The Age, (Wednesday, 29 June 1921), p.10.Obituary: Mrs. E.M. Maskell, The Shepparton Advertiser, (Thursday, 30 June 1921), p3. Arthur Thomas Maskell was born at Tatura, Victoria on 28 March 1894.
He married Teresa Daphne Duggan (1894–1967) on 21 October 1916. They had three children: Edna Jean Maskell (b.1917), Kevin Joseph Maskell (b.1921), and Marie Teresa Maskell (b.1929).
Football Recruited from Shepparton, he played on the half-back flank in his only senior VFL match for Melbourne, against University, at the MCG, on 28 June 1913, replacing the injured Norm McDougall.Melbourne (7.20) Beat University (7.11), The Age, (Monday, 30 June 1913), p.13.
McDougall was fit enough to play in the following match, Maskell was "dropped", and the Herald's football correspondent noted that "Maskell is not likely to play again with Melbourne".Play and Players, The Herald, (Friday, 4 July 1913), p.4.
Maskell returned to play in Shepparton's 1913 Goulburn Valley Football League's premiership.
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Arthur Maskell at Demonwiki