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MILLS, WILLIAM HUNTLEY, second son of William Mills, Saxham Hall, Suffolk, and Clara Jane, second dau. of Rev. Richard Huntley, Boxwell Court, Gloucs.; b. 21 Jun 1823; adm. 23 Jan 1837 (Benthall's); QS 1838; left 1839; Ensign, 89th Foot 20 Nov 1840; Lieut., 25 Aug 1843; retd. 17 May 1844; m.; d. at Ghent, Belgium 8 Mar 1883.

MAYNE, FREDERICK OTWAY, brother of Henry Otway Mayne (qv); b. 6 Aug 1823; adm. 11 Jan 1836 (Benthall's); KS 1837; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1841, adm. pens. 21 May 1841, scholar 1842; BA 1845; MA 1848; ordained deacon (Canterbury) 1846, priest (lit. dim. from Canterbury) 1847; Curate, Kemsing wth Seal, Kent 1846-9; Chaplain, EICS Bengal 1849-66; Vicar of Strood, Kent 1866-74; Vicar of Bearsted, Kent 1874-83; m. 13 Feb 1849 Elizabeth Louisa, dau. of Lieut. -Col. James Blair, EICS Bengal; d. 8 Aug 1906.

MARSHALL, THORNTON, sixth son of William Marshall, and Louisa, eldest dau. of William Benthall, Totnes, Devon; b. Mauritius 6 Mar 1822 [so was father holder of a Govt. appointment there ?]; adm. 1 Jul 1835 (Benthall's); Assistant Surgeon, Army 11 Apr 1845; Surgeon, 65th Foot 12 Jan 1855; half-pay 18 Nov 1859; m. Frances Boyd; d. 4 Feb 1861. [Evidently kin to William Benthall (adm. 1815, qv)].

MARSHALL, EDWARD, son of Edward Marshall, London [Chief Examiner of Accounts, War Office ?]; b. 10 Jun 1824; adm. 20 Jan 1835 (Benthall's); elected QS 1839, but remained a Town Boy; left Aug 1842; Clerk, War Office; m. Caroline Augusta Shearburn; d. 11 Dec 1861. [Perhaps Edward Marshall, son of Edward Marshall and Margaret ---, bapt. Jacobstow, Cornwall 8 Aug 1824 (IGI)].

MARSHALL, ALEXANDER, brother of Edward Marshall (qv); b. 17 Jul 1825; adm. 10 Jul 1837 (Benthall's); Clerk, Office of Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works and Buildings 13 Jul 1844; First Junior Clerk 13 Jul 1851; transferred Office of Works 1851; Corresponding Clerk 1 Apr 1854; 1st cl. Clerk 1 Jan 1857; retd. 30 Jan 1871; m. 14 Aug 1854 Frances Lavinia Bartlett; d. 8 Oct 1896.

MARKHAM, DAVID WILLIAM CHRISTIAN, eldest son of David Frederick Markham (qv); b. 25 Dec 1828; adm. 30 Sep 1841 (Benthall's); QS 1842; left 1844; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 Oct 1847; d. at sea on his passage home from Madeira 17 May 1850.

MARKHAM, SIR CLEMENTS ROBERT, son of David Frederick Markham (qv); b. 20 Jul 1830; adm. 26 May 1842 (Benthall); Min. Can. 1843; left Jun 1844; Cadet, Royal Navy 18 Jul 1844; Midshipman 28 Jun 1846; served in Capt. Austin’s Arctic expedition in search of Sir John Franklin May 1850 – Oct 1851; left Navy 28 Dec 1851; travelled in Peru 1852-3; Clerk, Legacy Duty Office, Inland Revenue Dec 1853 – Jul 1854; Clerk, Board of Control Jul 1854; Clerk, Correspondence Dept., India Office; Private Secretary to T. G. Baring MP when Parliamentary Under-Secretary, India Office 1862-4; Assistant Secretary, Public Works Dept., India Office 1867-71, Judicial Public and Revenue Dept. 1871-7; CB 17 May 1871; KCB 20 May 1896; introduced the cultivation of cinchona into British India from Peru 1859-61; geographer with British Army in Ethiopia 1867-8; took an active interest in Polar expedition and largely responsible for the despatch of Sir George Nares’s expedition in 1874 and that of Capt. R. F. Scott in 1901; Secretary, Hakluyt Society 1858-86, President 1886-1909; Secretary to Royal Geographical Society 1863-88, Gold Medallist 1888, President 1893-1905; President, International Geographical Congress, London 1895; FSA 12 Dec 1861; FRS 12 Jun 1873; DSc Cambridge 12 Jun 1907, Leeds 11 Jun 1910; an enthusiastic Old Westminster; acted as Secretary to OW Crimean and Indian Memorial Committee, and Chairman of the Committee for the decoration of the School walls with the arms of distinguished OWW; contemplated writing his reminiscences of the School, and left in MS his recollections as a small boy up Benthall’s in 1842-4; President, Elizabethan Club 1898-1912; Busby Trustee from 16 May 1899; a Governor of the School 16 Nov 1899 – 28 Jul 1913; a voluminous writer on Peru and the history of geographical discovery; m. 23 Apr 1857 Mary Anne (Minna), dau. of Rev. James Hamilton John Chichester, Rector of Arlington, Devon; d. 30 Jan 1916, after a shock from a fire in his room by which he was seriously injured. DNB.

LANE, THOMAS BRUCE, fifth son of Rev. Charles Lane, Rector of Wrotham, Kent, and Frances Catherine, second dau. of Right Rev. Daniel Sandford DD, Bishop of Edinburgh; b. 29 Apr 1831; adm. 20 Jan 1845 (Benthall's); QS 1845; left Midsummer 1847; at Haileybury Coll. 1850-1; Writer, EICS Bengal 1852; Assistant to Magistrate and Collector, Midnapur 1853; Joint Magistrate and Deputy Collector, Jessore 1856; Junior Secretary, Board of Revenue, Lower Provinces 1864-70, Secretary 1870-7; Collector of Customs, Calcutta 1877, retd. 1877; m. 20 Jul 1853 Adelaide Fanny Spring, sister of Frederick Macquoid Samuel Belli (qv); d. 14 Jan 1917.

LAMBARDE, JOHN, second son of William Lambarde (b. 1796, qv); b. 28 Feb 1823; adm. 17 Jun 1836 (Benthall's); KS 1837; left 1840; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1840; Ensign, 57th Native Infantry 29 May 1841; Lieut., 12 Apr 1845; Adjutant, 2nd Assam Battn.; m. 16 Aug 1847 Mary Anne Priscilla, second dau. of Capt. Thomas Haslam, EICS Bengal; d. at Gowhatty, Assam 8 Jul 1848.

JONES, WILSON HENRY, third son of Wilson Jones MP, Hartsheath, Flintshire, and Cecil, dau. of John Carstairs DCL FRS, Warboys, Hunts.; b. 27 Feb 1831; adm. 3 Feb 1843 (Benthall's); BB 1844; Ensign, 13th Foot 28 Apr 1848; Lieut., 21 Jan 1853; Capt., 2 Feb 1855; served in Crimean War and Indian Mutiny; killed at relief of Azimghur, Oudh, India 6 Apr 1858.