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.”]