MARKES, Robert William. b. 1802; founder of the Hollywood whist club 1835; an artist; a member of the Socials, a club meeting at Clunn’s Richardson’s hotel, Piazza, Covent Garden, London; formerly of Hollywood house, West Brompton. d. 288 King’s road, Chelsea 26 July 1875. The Westminster Papers 1 Aug. 1875 p. 77.
MARKHAM, Frederic (3 son of admiral John Markham 1761–1827). b. Ades in Chailey parish near Lewes 16 Aug. 1805; entered at Westminster sch. 15 June 1814, king’s scholar 1820, expelled for a boating scrape 1824; ensign 32 foot 13 May 1824, lieut.-col. 22 July 1842 to 28 Nov. 1854; second to captain John Rowland Smyth in a fatal duel with Standish O’Grady barrister 18 March 1830, Smyth and Markham were tried for their lives and sentenced each to a year’s imprisonment in Kilmainham gaol; commanded second infantry brigade at first and second sieges of Mooltan during Punjaub campaign of 1848–9; C.B. 9 June 1849; A.D.C. to the queen 2 Aug. 1850 to 28 Nov. 1854; adjutant general of the queen’s troops in India, March 1854; commandant of the Peshawur district Nov. 1854; commanded second division of the army before Sebastopol 30 July 1855; lieut. general 30 July 1855; author of Shooting in the Himalayas, a journal of sporting adventures in Chinese Tartary, Ladac, Thibet and Cashmere 1854. d. Limmer’s hotel, 1 George st. Hanover sq. London 21 Nov. 1855. bur. at Morland near Penrith 1 Dec., in which church is monument put up by officers of his regiment. Men of the time (1856) 528–9.
MARKHAM, Mrs. Hannah. b. St. Albans, May or June 1785; nurse in family of R. B. Sheridan’s brother, afterwards in service of Marquess of Dufferin. d. Roxby 28 June 1892 aged 107. Daily Graphic 4 July 1892 p. 8 col. 2, portrait.
MARKHAM, William (eld. son of William Markham 1760–1815). b. 28 June 1796; ed. Westminster, king’s scholar 1811, matric. from Ch. Ch. Oxf. 9 May 1815; colonel 2 West York militia; contested Ripon 10 Dec. 1832. d. 26 Jany. 1852.
MARKHAM, William Orlando (son of Charles Markham, clerk of the peace, Northampton). b. 1818; studied medicine at Edinb., Paris, and Heidelberg; M.D. Edinb. 1840; F.R.C.P. Lond. 1854; F.K.Q.C.P. Ireland 1867; physician St. Mary’s hospital, London, and lecturer at the medical sch.; Gulstonian lecturer 1864; poor law inspector and medical adviser to poor law board Aug. 1866; edited British Medical journal 1860 to 1866 when he was presented with an address signed by 1500 members of the British medical association; translated J. Skoda’s A treatise on auscultation 1853, and C. Neubauer and J. Vogel’s A guide to the analysis of the urine 1863; author of Remarks on the surgical practice of Paris 1840; Diseases of the heart 1856, 2 ed. 1860; Bleeding and change in type of diseases 1864; Vivisection, is it necessary or justifiable? 1866. d. 21 Nightingale lane, Clapham, Surrey 23 Jany. 1891.
MARKLAND, James Heywood (youngest son of Robert Markland, check and fustian manufacturer at Manchester, d. 1828). b. Ardwick Green, Manchester 7 Dec. 1788; ed. at Chester gr. sch.; solicitor in London 1810, partner in firm of Markland and Wright to 1839; parliamentary agent of the West India planters 1814; F.S.A. 1809, director of the society 1827 to April 1829; F.R.S. 28 March 1816; D.C.L. Oxf. 21 June 1849; resided at Bath 1842 to death; pres. of Bath literary club founded 1852; founded for Mrs. Charlotte Ramsden of Bath an annual sermon at St. Mary’s church, Cambridge, upon the subject of church extension over the colonies, the proposal was accepted by the senate 9 Feb. 1848; distributed for the Misses Mitford of Bath £14,000 in charitable works in England and the colonies; author of A few plain reasons for adhering to the church 1807, anon.; A few words on the sin of lying 1834, anon.; On the reverence due to holy places 1845, 3 ed. 1846; Remarks on English churches and on rendering sepulchral monuments subservient to Christian uses 1842, 3 ed. 1843; The offertory, the most excellent way of contributing money for Christian purposes 1862; contributed numerous articles to the Censura Literaria and to Notes and Queries. d. 1 Lansdown crescent, Bath 28 Dec. 1864, memorial window in Bath abbey. G.M. (1821) pt. ii p. 278, (1865) pt. i pp. 649–52.
MARLBOROUGH, George Spencer Churchill, 5 Duke of (1 son of 4 duke of Marlborough 1766–1840). b. Billhill, parish of Sonning, Berks. 27 Dec. 1793; styled earl of Sunderland 1793–1817; ed. at Eton; cr. D.C.L. of Oxford univ. 15 June 1841; styled marquess of Blandford 1817–40; M.P. Chippenham 1818–20; M.P.Woodstock 1826–34 and 1838–40; succeeded as 5 duke 5 March 1840; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 27 April 1842 to death; lieut.-col. commanding Oxfordshire regt. of yeomanry 19 March 1845 to death. d. Blenheim palace, Woodstock 1 July 1857, will proved Sep. 1857 under £200,000. Waagen’s Treasures of Art, iii 121–32 (1854); G.M. iii 214 (1857); In the matter of the duke and duchess of Marlborough (1853).
Note.—In 1817 the then marquess of Blandford lived with Miss Susan Adelaide Law and afterward went through a form of marriage with her, the officiating minister being an officer disguised as a clergyman, soon after however he married a dau. of the earl of Galloway. The Satirist newspaper having stated that the first connection was a legitimate marriage and that the children of the marquess of Blandford were not legitimate, a rule was made absolute against the proprietor of The Satirist in the Court of Queen’s bench on 22 Nov. 1838. The Annual Register (1838) 294–6.
MARLBOROUGH, John Winston Spencer Churchill, 6 Duke of (1 son of the preceding). b. Garboldisham hall, Harling, Norfolk 2 June 1822; styled earl of Sunderland 1822–40; ed. at Eton; matric. from Oriel coll. Oxf. 15 June 1840, cr. D.C.L. 7 June 1853; styled marquess of Blandford 1840–57; M.P. Woodstock 1844–5, 1847–57; contested Middlesex 17 July 1852; he was the author of the Blandford act 1856, 19 & 20 Vict. cap. 104 for subdivision of extensive parishes in large towns; succeeded as 6 duke 1 July 1857; lord lieut. of Oxfordshire 24 Sep. 1857 to death; lord steward of the household 10 July 1866 to 1867; P.C. 10 July 1866; lord president of the council 8 March 1867 to 9 Dec. 1868; K.G. 23 May 1868; lord lieutenant of Ireland 28 Nov. 1876 to 28 April 1880; grand master of the order of St. Patrick 12 Dec. 1876 to 20 April 1880; a very popular viceroy; the duchess instituted an Irish famine relief fund 1879 by which she collected £112,484, which was spent in seed potatoes, food and clothing; she received the order of Victoria and Albert 4 May 1880; he commenced a series of sales of the family collections which were continued by his successor, the Marlborough gems were sold in one lot at Christies’ for £10,000, 1875; author of A letter to sir George Grey on legislation for the church of England. Westminster 1856; found dead on floor of his bedroom 29 Berkeley sq. London 5 July 1883. bur. in chapel of Blenheim palace 10 July. Antiquarian Mag. i 35–8, 78–83, 255–6 (1882), ii 145–6; C. Brown’s Life of lord Beaconsfield, ii 87 (1882), portrait; I.L.N. lxix 404 (1876), portrait; Graphic, xxviii 32 (1883), portrait; Times, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 July 1883.
MARLBOROUGH, George Charles Spencer Churchill, 8 Duke of (1 son of the preceding). b. Wilmington crescent, London, a residence of the marquess of Londonderry 13 May 1844; styled earl of Sunderland 1844–57, and marquess of Blandford 1857–83; educ. at Eton; cornet royal regt. of horse guards 12 June 1863, lieut. 5 June 1866, retired 12 May 1869; succeeded as 8 duke 5 July 1883; m. (1) 8 Nov. 1869 lady Albertha 6 dau. of 1 duke of Abercorn, she obtained a divorce 10 Feb. 1883 for her husband’s crim. con. with the countess of Aylesford, she continued to call herself marchioness of Blandford; m. (2) 29 June 1888 Lily the widow of Lewis Hammersley of New York; his perpetual pension of £4,000 a year was commuted on payment of £100,000, 2 Aug. 1884; under Lord Cairns’s act sold the Blenheim collection of pictures, books and curiosities 1885–6; chairman of Brush electrical engineering co., of Electric and general investment co., and of Woodstock railway co. to death; wrote on art in periodicals attacking prevailing English schools and methods of painting. d. suddenly from heart disease at Blenheim palace 9 Nov. 1892. bur. Woodstock. Will proved for £350,000 gross. Baily’s Mag. xxviii 187 (1876), portrait; The Times 10, 11, 15 Nov. 1892.