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.
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Términos jerárquicos
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- Término Específico 1, Little Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 13, Moreton Terrace
- Término Específico 14, Barton Street
- Término Específico 15, Moreton Terrace
- Término Específico 16, Vincent Square
- Término Específico 17, Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 17, Vincent Square
- Término Específico 18, Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 18, Great College Street
- Término Específico 18, Vincent Square
- Término Específico 19, Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 2, Barton Street
- Término Específico 2, Little Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 20, Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 20, Great College Street
- Término Específico 22, Great College Street
- Término Específico 22, Vincent Square
- Término Específico 23, Vincent Square
- Término Específico 26, Great College Street
- Término Específico 29, Great College Street
- Término Específico 29a, Great College Street
- Término Específico 3, Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 3, Little Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 4, Barton Street
- Término Específico 5, Barton Street
- Término Específico 5a, Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 6, Dean's Yard
- Término Específico 7-9, Dean Bradley Street
- Término Específico 7, Lord North Street
- Término Específico 8, Gayfere Street
- Término Específico Adrian Boult Building
- Término Específico Adrian Boult Music Centre
- Término Específico Armoury
- Término Específico Armoury Block
- Término Específico Ashburnham House
- Término Específico Barton Street
- Término Específico Boat House
- Término Específico Busby Library
- Término Específico Chapel
- Término Específico Church House
- Término Específico College Dormitory
- Término Específico College Garden
- Término Específico College Hall
- Término Específico Dean's Yard
- Término Específico Great College Street
- Término Específico Great Sanctuary
- Término Específico Grove Park
- Término Específico Gym
- Término Específico Liddell's Arch
- Término Específico Little Dean's Yard
- Término Específico Manoukian Music Centre
- Término Específico Millicent Fawcett Hall
- Término Específico Mother Dawson's
- Término Específico Nenthead House, Alston
- Término Específico Robert Hooke Science Centre
- Término Específico School
- Término Específico School Gateway
- Término Específico School House, Alston
- Término Específico Singleton's
- Término Específico Sports Centre
- Término Específico St Edward's House
- Término Específico Sutcliff's
- Término Específico Tothill Fields
- Término Específico Tothill Street
- Término Específico Tufton Street
- Término Específico Turles House
- Término Específico Under School
- Término Específico Vincent Square
- Término Específico Westminster Abbey
- Término Específico Weston Building