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              Marnell, Richard, 1787-1838
              GB-2014-WSA-11830 · Person · 1787-1838

              MARNELL, RICHARD, son of Richard Marnell, St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, and Louisa Walton (IGI); b. 3 Feb 1787 (or 1786 (IGI)); adm.; at school 1798; KS 1801; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1804, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 May 1804, Canoneer Student 1805; BA 1808; MA 1811; adm. Inner Temple, called to bar 13 May 1814; advocate, Supreme Court, Calcutta, from 1821; Counsel for Paupers 1825; d. at Calcutta 2 Aug 1838.
              Marmion, Gabriel, fl. 1564
              GB-2014-WSA-11829 · Person · fl. 1564

              MARMION, GABRIEL; b.; adm.; QS; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1564, adm. scholar 1565, matr. Easter 1561 (sic, check).
              Markham, William, 1796-1852
              GB-2014-WSA-11822 · Person · 1796-1852

              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.
              Markham, William, 1760-1815
              GB-2014-WSA-11821 · Person · 1760-1815

              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, 1719-1807
              Markham, William, 1719-1807
              GB-2014-WSA-00977 · Person · 1719-1807

              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, Samuel, 1722-1797
              GB-2014-WSA-11819 · Person · 1722-1797

              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, Robert, 1768-1837
              GB-2014-WSA-11817 · Person · 1768-1837

              MARKHAM, ROBERT, son of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 28 Mar 1768; adm. 11 Sep 1776; KS 1782; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1786, matr. 14 Jun 1786, Westminster Student 23 Dec 1786 – void 18 Dec 1793 (expiry year of grace as R. Barton from 19 Feb 1793); BA 1790; MA 1794; ordained deacon 24 Jul 1791 (York), priest 1792 (London, lit. dim. from York); Rector of Barton in Fabis, Notts. 1792-6; Prebendary of York 23 Apr 1792 – Jan 1833; Archdeacon of York and Chancellor of Richmond from 9 Jul 1794; Rector of Bolton Percy, Yorks., 1796; Vicar of Bishopsthorpe, Yorks., 1797 (disp. to hold with Bolton Percy); Prebendary of Carlisle from 29 Oct 1801; Canon Residentiary, York 1802; m. 2 Aug 1797 Frances Egerton, dau. of Sir Gervase Clifton, Bart.; d. 17 Aug 1837.
              Markham, Osborne, 1769-1827
              GB-2014-WSA-11815 · Person · 1769-1827

              MARKHAM, OSBORNE, son of William Markham (adm. 1733, qv); b. 27 May 1769; adm. 30 Mar 1778; KS (Capt. ) 1783; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1787, matr. 8 Jun 1787, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1787 – Feb 1797, Faculty Student 2 Feb 1797 – Jun 1806; BA 1791; MA 1794; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Jun 1790, called to bar 2 Jul 1794; Chancellor, Diocese of York 1795-1818; a Commissioner of Bankrupts 1796-1804; Commissioner of the Navy 24 Aug 1803 – May 1805; MP Calne 17 Feb 1806 – Mar 1807; Commissioner of Barracks Apr 1807-16, Comptroller from 1816; m. 1st, 10 Jun 1806 Lady Mary Thynne, dau. of Thomas Thynne, 1st Marquis of Bath KG PC; m. 2nd, 28 Jun 1821 Martha Honora Georgina, dau. of Capt. William Henry Jervis Ricketts, Royal Navy; d. 22 Oct 1827.
              Markham, George, 1763-1822
              GB-2014-WSA-11809 · Person · 1763-1822

              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, 1805-1855
              GB-2014-WSA-11807 · Person · 1805-1855

              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.