Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about Noteworthy Families (Modern Science).

Noteworthy Families (Modern Science) eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about Noteworthy Families (Modern Science).

Sir Clements R. #MARKHAM# (b. 1830), K.C.B., F.R.S., President for
    many years of the Royal Geograph.  Soc.; served in Arctic
    Expedition, 1850-1851; travelled in Peru, 1852-1854, bringing
    thence cinchona-bearing trees for cultivation in India;
    geographer to the Abyssinian Expedition; author and editor of
    numerous geographical works.—­["Ency.  Brit.,” xxx. 544; “Who’s
    Who.”]

fa fa, William MARKHAM (1760-1815), scholar; secretary to Warren Hastings in India.

fa bro son, Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin MARKHAM (b. 1833), K.C.B., R.E., constant active service.—­["Who’s Who.”]

fa bro son, Admiral Sir Albert MARKHAM (b. 1841), K.C.B., Commander of the “Alert” in Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876; various high naval appointments, besides unprofessional work when unemployed on naval duties.—­["Who’s Who.”]

me bro son, Right Hon. Sir Frederick MILNER, Bart. (b. 1849), P.C., politician.—­["Who’s Who.”]

me si son, Right Hon. Francis FOLJAMBE (b. 1830), P.C., politician.—­["Who’s Who.”]

me si son, Right Hon. Sir Edwin EGERTON (b. 1841), P.C., G.C.M.G., Ambassador at Madrid, then at Rome.—­["Who’s Who.”]

fa fa fa, William MARKHAM (1719-1807), P.C., Archbishop of York; one of the best scholars of the day; Headmaster of Westminster School, 1753-1765; Dean of Christ Church; Preceptor to the Royal Princes, 1771; Archbishop and Lord High Almoner, 1777.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.,” xxxvi. 172.]

fa fa bro, Admiral John MARKHAM (1761-1827); many services at sea; twice on Admiralty Board; M.P. for Portsmouth during seventeen years; proposed and carried appointment of Commission on dockyard abuses, 1806.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.,” xxxvi. 171.]

fa fa bro, George MARKHAM (1763-1823), Dean of York; scholar and numismatist.

Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story #MASKELYNE# (b. 1823), F.R.S., Hon.
    D.Sc., Oxon.  Distinguished mineralogist; formerly Keeper of
    Minerals in British Museum; Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford,
    1856-1895; M.P. for Cricklade, 1880-1885; for North Wilts,
    1885-1892.—­["Who’s Who.”]

me fa, Nevil MASKELYNE (1732-1811), D.D., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal for forty-seven years; was the first man to weigh the earth; the originator of the Nautical Almanac.—­["Dict.  N. Biog.”]

fa, Anthony Mervyn Reeve STORY, F.R.S., gained a double first-class in Lit.  Hum. and Mathematics, when nineteen years of age, at Oxford, in 1810.—­["Oxf.  Reg.”]

si son, John Story MASTERMAN, gained a first-class in Lit.  Hum., 1872; Fellow of Brasenose, Oxford.—­["Oxf.  Reg.”]

si son, Herbert Warington SMYTH, Secretary, Mining Dept., Transvaal; Secretary, Siamese Legation, 1898-1901; Order White Elephant of Siam, 1897; author of “Five Years in Siam,” etc.—­["Who’s Who.”]

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