William Maslin

William Stephen Maslin (1850 – 19 December 1929) was a Liberal Party Member of Parliament in New Zealand.

Early life and business interests Maslin was born in Brentford, Middlesex, England in 1850. He came to New Zealand with his parents as a boy; they arrived in Lyttelton on 21 July 1858 on the Maori. His father, a builder and timber trader, went to Timaru later that year and once established, the family followed in early the next year. The family moved to Geraldine in 1861. His father was killed in a construction accident in June 1864 and Maslin, as the eldest boy, took charge of the family and worked as a timber merchant. Once the native trees had all been milled, Maslin's business became a general store; he sold this business in 1883. From then until 1892, he worked as an auctioneer in Timaru and Geraldine. Beyond that, he had a land agency business. Maslin also had farmland for cropping.

Since 1868, Maslin was active in the Methodist Church. He was one of the founders of the Good Templary Lodge in Geraldine. He joined the Southern Star Lodge in 1879 and became a Freemason. He also held membership of the Oddfellows lodge. When Geraldine became a borough in early 1905, he was elected as the inaugural mayor.

He was elected to the electorate in the 1893 general election, but retired in 1896. He did not stand in the 1896 general election. for Geraldine in 1902, for in , He stood for in and contested his last general election in in the Dunedin Central electorate.