MARKHAM, SAMUEL, son of John Markham, Paternoster Row, London, apothecary, and Elizabeth --- [probably Haywood (IGI)]; bapt. St. Faith’s, City of London 28 Mar 1722 (IGI); adm. (aged 80 Jan 1730/1; KS 1737; elected to Christ Church 1741, matr. 30 May 1741, Westminster Student 22 Dec 1741 – void 27 Jun 1755; BCL 1748; adm. Middle Temple 3 Jun 1743; migr. to Inner Temple 5 Feb 1745/6, called to bar 25 Jun 1748, tenant chambers there to Nov 1765; ordained deacon (Winchester) Dec 1759, priest (Peterborough) 2 Mar 1760; Curate, Charing, Kent 1763-5; Minor Canon, Rochester 1765-7; Vicar of Bearsted, Kent 4 Dec 1765-7; Rector of Leatherhead, Surrey, from 8 Dec 1767; evening preacher at St. Dunstan in the West, London; m. 27 Apr 1762 Jane Farr, Christ Church, London; d. 28 Mar 1797.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM, eldest son of Maj. William Markham, Barrack-Master of Kinsale, co. Cork, and Elizabeth, dau. of George Markham, Worksop, Notts.; bapt. 9 Apr 1719; adm. (aged 14) 21 Jun 1733; KS (Capt. ) 1734; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1738, matr. 6 Jun 1738, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1738 – void by marriage 18 Jun 1759, Tutor 1742-52, Junior Censor 1751; BA 1742; MA 1745; BCL and DCL 1752; adm. Gray’s Inn 29 Jan 1742/3; ordained priest (Oxford) 17 Dec 1748; Head Master of the School Feb 1753 – Mar 1764; Chaplain in Ordinary to George II 1756 (still 1760); Prebendary of Durham 22 Jun 1759 – Feb 1771; Dean of Rochester 20 Feb 1765 – Oct 1767; Vicar of Boxley, Kent 1765-71; Dean of Christ Church, Oxford 23 Oct 1767 – Jan 1777; consecrated Bishop of Chester 17 Feb 1771; Preceptor to Prince of Wales and Prince Frederick 12 Apr 1771 – 28 May 1776; Archbishop of York from 20 Jan 1777; Lord High Almoner from 21 Jan 1777; Privy Councillor 31 Jan 1777; attacked in House of Lords by Duke of Grafton and Earl of Shelburne 30 May 1777, for having preached doctrines subversive of the Constitution in a sermon at St. Mary-le-Bow Feb 1777; Markham’s “pernicious” doctrines were also attacked by Earl of Chatham; had a narrow escape at his house in Bloomsbury Square during Gordon Riots; at one time an intimate friend of Edmund Burke, whose Philiosophical Enquiry, 1756, he corrected for the press, and afterwards revised; a staunch friend and supporter of Warren Hastings (qv); “our great glory”, wrote Jeremy Bentham (qv), “was Dr. Markham : he was a tall portly man and “high he held his head” … We stood prodigiously in awe of him; indeed he was an object of adoration” (Bentham, Works, 1843, x, 30); during his Head mastership the old Granary in Dean’s Yard was removed and the houses on the Terrace probably built; donor of the scenes for the Latin Play, designed by James Stuart and in use from 1758 to 1808; Busby Trustee 18 Mar 1756; m. 16 Jun 1759 Sarah, dau. of John Goddard, Rotterdam, merchant; d. 3 Nov 1807. Buried North Cloister, Westminster Abbey. DNB.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 5 Apr 1760; adm. 3 Feb 1767; KS (Capt. ) 1773; Writer, EICS Bengal 1777; arrived in India 3 Jul 1777; Assistant to Resident, Benares 1778; acting Postmaster 1779; Resident, Benares Jan 1781 – Mar 1783; Private Secretary to Warren Hastings (qv) 1782; returned to England Nov 1783, owing to persecution by Sir Philip Francis; purchased Becca Hall, Yorks.; assisted Hastings during his trial; one of donors of Warren Hastings cup; m. 20 Aug 1795 Elizabeth, fifth dau. of Oldfield Bowles, North Aston, Oxfordshire; d. 1 Jan 1815.
MARKHAM, WILLIAM, eldest son of William Markham (adm. 1767, qv); b. 28 Jun 1796; adm. 1804 (third quarter) (G); KS 1811; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 9 May 1815; of Becca Hall, Yorks.; DL JP Yorkshire West Riding; Lieut., Yorkshire Hussars 3 May 1818; Capt., 3 May 1820; contested (Cons) Ripon 1832; Col., 2nd West Yorkshire Militia 1834; m. 12 Feb 1828 Lucy Anne, second dau. of William Holbech, Farnborough, Warwicks.; d. 26 Jan 1852.
Marks, Howard John, son of Jack Marks of St John’s Wood and Iris Ellen Jessica, d. of William James Dilly of Caterham, Surrey; b. 28 Apr. 1934; adm. Sept. 1947 (A); left July 1952; a chartered accountant, ACA 1958, FCA; d. 6 July 2013.
Marks, Julian David John, son of Julian David Marks (qv); b. 15 July 1920; adm. Sept. 1934 (G); left July 1935; RNVR in WW2 (Lieut.); m. 29 Apr. 1950 Susan, d. of H. P. James of Nassau, Bahamas; d. July 1996.
Marks, Julian David, elder son of Montague Lawrence Marks, of South Kensington, by Agnes, daughter of Moses Lazarus, of New York; b. Aug. 17, 1888: adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 25, 1902 (A); elected to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1907, matric. Michaelmas 1907; 1st class Nat. Science, pt. i, 1910; B.A. 1910; 2nd Lieut. 5th Dragoon Guards (S. R.) Aug. 15, 1914, R.F.A. Oct. 23, 1915; served in France and Salonika 1915-6; invalided Feb. 1918; chairman of the Staveley Investment Trust and other companies; . J.P., Surrey; m. May 5, 1915, Nancy Pleasants, daughter of Samuel Hollingsworth, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; d. Aug. 25, 1950.
Marks, Philip Moses, brother of Julian David Marks (q.v.); b. April 6, 1890; adm. Sept. 25, 1902 (A); left Easter 1905; enlisted in 17th (Empire) Batt. Royal Fusiliers Aug. 10, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. (Res.) Middlesex Regt. March 25, 1915, attached 4th Batt.; went out to the western front June 1915; m. 191 1 Cynthia Dow White, daughter of Janet Ridsdale, of Kingsdown, Kent; killed in action at Hooge in Flanders Sept. 29, 1915.
Markstein, George Gustav, b. 29 Aug. 1926; adm. Nov. 1940 (G); left Apr. 1941; a novelist, film and TV scriptwriter; consult. to Thames TV; author of The Cooler 1974, Tara Kane 1978, The Goering Testament 1978, Traitor for a Cause 1979, The Ferret 1983; d. 15 Jan. 1987.
Markau, Horst, son of Dr K. E. Markau, physicist; b. 21 June 1918; adm. Sept. 1931 (H); left Dec. 1931.