Clements Robert Markham
Clements Robert Markham
| Clements Robert Markham | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 1830 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 1916 | ||||||||||||||
| Residence |
India Office; 21 Eccleston Square Pimlico; and Oriental Club Hanover Square and Athenaeum Club | ||||||||||||||
| Occupation |
academic explorer | ||||||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1872 Member
AI Council 1873 Member
AI Council 1874 Member
House Notes
Hon. Sec. Geographical Society
portrait and obit. in Man 1916 by A.P. Maudslay
Notes From Elsewhere
Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS (20 July 1830 – 30 January 1916) was an English geographer, explorer, and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888,[1] and later served as the Society's president for a further 12 years. In the latter capacity he was mainly responsible for organising the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–04, and for launching the polar career of Robert Falcon Scott.
Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1868
English Artic explorer, author, and geographer, the son of a Vicar. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in 1844, and served on the relief mission of 1850 to search for Sir John Franklin, whose doomed expedition of 1845 had tried to find the Northwest Passage. He left the Navy to work in the India Office, leading an expedition to Peru in search of cinchona quinine-bark, and joining the Abyssinia Expedition of 1867, among others. He was an influential member of the Royal Geographical Society, replacing Norton Shaw as Secretary in 1863, and eventually becoming the president in 1893. His is chiefly remembered for his enthusiastic support of exploration expeditions, rather than educational initiatives he considered “doctrinaire”. Author of many books, including Franklin's Footsteps (1852), Travels in Peru and India (1862), and The fifty years' work of the Royal geographical society (1881).
Markham knew Burton well through the RGS and left an important reminiscence (see Volume 3) in his unpublished history of the RGS. He also collaborated with Burton through the Hakluyt Society. Some correspondence between the two men survives (see Volume 2).
Publications
External Publications
Franklin's Footsteps (1852) London, Chapman and Hall
Cuzco ... and Lima (1856) London, Chapman and Hall
Travels in Peru and India (1862) London, John Murray
Contribution Toward a Grammar and Dictionary of Quichua (1864) London, Trubner & Co,
A History of the Abyssinian Expedition (1869) London, Macmillan
A Life of the Great Lord Fairfax (1870) London, Macmillan
Ollanta: an ancient Ynca drama (1871) London, Trubner & Co
The Countess of Chinchon and the cinchona genus (1874) London, Trubner & Co
General Sketch of the History of Persia (1874) London, Longman Green
The Threshold of the Unknown Regions(1875) London, Samson Low
Narrative of the mission of George Bogle to Tibet (1877) London, Trubner & Co
A Memoir of the Indian Surveys (1878) London, W.H. Allen
Peruvian Bark (1880) London, John Murray
The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612–1622 (1881) London, Hakluyt Society
The War between Peru and Chile (1881) London, Samson Low
A narrative of the life of Admiral John Markham (1883) London, Low Marston Searle & Rivington
The Sea Fathers (1885) London, Cassell
Life of Robert Fairfax of Steeton, Vice-admiral (1885) London, MacMillan & Co,
The Fighting Veres (1888) London, Samson Low
The Life of John Davis the Navigator (1889) London, George Philip and Son
The Life of Christopher Columbus (1892) London, George Philip and Son
The History of Peru (1892) Chicago, Charles H Sergel
Major James Rennel and the Rise of Modern English Geography (1895) London, Cassell & Co
The paladins of Edwin the Great (1896) London, Adam & Charles Black
Richard III: his life and character (1906) London, Smith, Elder & Co
The Story of Minorca and Majorca (1909) London, Smith, Elder & Co
The Incas of Peru (1912) London, John Murray
The Lands of Silence (completed by F.H.H. Guillemard, 1921) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
House Publications
ESL On the tribes inhabiting the Valley of the Amazons and its tributaries
On the Arctic highlanders
ASL paper read 15 dec 1863
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