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MARKHAM, JOHN, son of William Markham (adm. 1767, qv); b. 6 Jun 1797; adm. 1805 (second quarter) (G); left 1810; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 20 Mar 1820; 1st cl. Volunteer, Royal Navy 1810; Lieut., 30 Jan 1824; invalided Aug 1824; Cdr., 1 Jul 1864; emigrated to USA and settled in Trempeleau Co., Wisconsin; m. 1834 Marianne Georgina Davies, dau. of John Brock Wood; d. 26 Oct 1870.

MARKHAM, HENRY SPENCER, son of Robert Markham (adm. 1776, qv); b. 8 Jan 1805; adm. 25 May 1818 (Best's); left 1 May 1823; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 15 May 1823; BA 1828; MA 1830; ordained deacon 12 Oct 1828 (York), priest 1829 (lit. dim. from York); Vicar of Addingham, Cumberland 1829; Prebendary of York from 4 Feb 1830; Rector of Clifton, Notts. (disp. to hold with Conisborough 1830); Vicar of Conisborough, Yorks., 1830; m. 18 Oct 1831 Sophia Charlotte, eldest dau. of Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart. (adm. 1777, qv); d. 2 Sep 1844.

MARKHAM, GEORGE, son of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 20 Mar 1763; adm. 3 Apr 1771; KS 1776; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1780, matr. 24 May 1780, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1780 – void 14 Feb 1789 (expiry year of grace as R. Becford from 14 Feb 1788); BA 1784; MA 1787; BD and DD 1803; ordained deacon 16 Oct 1785 (York), priest 1787 (Chester, lit. dim. from York); Prebendary of Southwell 9 Jun 1787-1802; Prebendary of York 8 Aug – Nov 1787, Chancellor 19 Nov 1787-1802; Rector of Becford, Yorks., 1788-91; Rector of Stokesley, Yorks., 1791; Dean of York from Apr 1802; m. 6 Jun 1789 Elizabeth Evelyn, sister of John Sutton (adm. 1779, qv) (Markham obtained £7000 damages in action for crim. con. against John Fawcett (afterwards Pulteney) (qv), 4 May 1802); d. 29 Sep 1822.

MARKHAM, FREDERICK, third son of John Markham (adm. 1768, qv); b. 16 Aug 1805; adm. 15 Jun 1814; KS 1820; expelled for a scrape which he got into when boating in Apr 1824 (A Naval Career during the Old War, 1883, pp 275-6); Ensign, 32nd Foot 13 May 1824; Lieut., 22 Oct 1825; Capt., 16 Apr 1829; Maj., 28 Sep 1839; Lieut. -Col., 22 Jul 1842; Brevet Col. and ADC to Queen Victoria 2 Aug 1850; Maj. -Gen., 28 Nov 1854; Lieut. -Gen., local rank, 30 Jul 1855; second to Capt. Smyth, 32nd Foot, in his fatal duel with Standish O’Grady 18 Mar 1830, and sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham Gaol; served in Lower Canada during insurrection of 1837, wounded at St. Denis; served in Punjab campaign 1848-9, wounded at siege of Mooltan; CB 5 Jun 1849; Adjutant-Gen., British Army in India Mar – Nov 1854; appointed to command of Peshawar division, but recalled from India in 1854 to proceed to the Crimea; commanded Second Division in attack on the Redan 8 Sep 1855; shortly afterwards invalided home; author, Shooting in the Himalayas, 1854; d. unm. 21 Dec 1855. DNB.

MARKHAM, FRANCIS, son of William Markham (KS 1811, qv); b. 31 Oct 1837; adm. 10 Oct 1849 (G); Min. Can. 1852; left 1855; Ensign, Rifle Brigade 16 Mar 1856; Lieut., 3 Jun 1859; Capt. 5 Jan 1870; sold out 2 Feb 1872; DL JP Westmorland, High Sheriff 1889; JP Cumberland 1873; author, Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster 1849-55, 1903, which provides many interesting details and anecdotes of his school life; m. 20 Apr 1868 his cousin Maria, dau. of William Rice Markham (qv); d. 27 Oct 1921.

MARKHAM, DAVID, son of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 1 Sep 1766; adm. 14 Mar 1774; KS 1780; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1784, matr. 9 Jun 1784, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1784 – deprived 29 Sep 1787 (absence); Lieut., 7th Foot 11 May 1785; Capt. -Lieut., 76th Foot 26 Jan 1788; Capt., 8 Sep 1789; Maj., 20th Foot 23 Feb 1793; Lieut. -Col., 29 Mar 1794; wounded in Mysore campaign 1792; killed while directing an attack against a redoubt near Port au Prince, Haiti 26 Mar 1795.

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.

MARKHAM, CHARLES, son of William Markham (adm. 1767, qv); b. 14 Mar 1803; adm. 3 Apr 1815 (Packharness'); left Christmas 1818; Cornet, 3rd Dragoons 28 Jun 1821; Lieut., 1st Dragoons 23 Jun 1825; Capt., 29 Aug 1826; 60th Foot 7 Jun 1827; Maj., 31 May 1833; Lieut. -Col., 17 Aug 1841; m. 17 Jun 1834 Emma, dau. of Rev. Ralph Henry Brandling, Gosforth House, Northumberland; d. in Jamaica 2 Apr 1842.

MARKHAM, CHARLES JOHN, son of Rev. Charles Warren Markham, Rector of Saxby, Lincs., and Margaret, dau. of John Watson Barton, Stapleton Park, Pontefract, Yorks.; grandson of Charles Markham (qv); b. 21 Jun 1862; adm. 27 Jan 1876 (R ); QS 1877; left Oct 1879; RMC Sandhurst 1881; Lieut., King’s Royal Rifle Corps 27 Sep 1882; Capt., 25 Jun 1890; Maj., 15 Oct 1898; Lieut. -Col., 18 Mar 1904; Brevet Col., 18 Mar 1907; retd., half-pay 18 Mar 1908; Col., 10 Feb 1909; served in expedition to Manipur 1891, and in Burma 1891-2; raised and trained 42nd Infantry Brigade and commanded it in France 1915; commanded 205th Infantry Brigade Sep 1915 – Mar 1917; temp. Brig. -Gen., 6 Jun 1916; CBE 3 Jun 1919; m. 16 Nov 1893 Isabella Cameron, dau. of Lieut. -Col. Robert Gardner, RMA, Southsea, Hampshire; d. 7 Jul 1927.