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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.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.