Clements Markham
Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS was an English geographer, explorer, and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society between 1863 and 1888, and later served as the Societys president for a further 12160years. In the latter capacity he was mainly responsible for organising the National Antarctic Expedition of 190104, and for launching the polar career of Robert Falcon Scott.
Markham was born onJuly 1830 at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire, the second son of the Reverend David Markham, then vicar of Stillingfleet. The family were descendents of the Rt Hon. and Most Rev. Dr William Markham, a former Archbishop of York and royal tutor this Court connection led to David Markhams appointment, in 1827, as an honorary canon of Windsor. Markhams mother Catherine, ne Milner, was the daughter of Sir William Milner, Bt., of Nun Appleton Hall, Yorkshire.
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