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Dictionary of Indian Biography M to R
Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| Surname | Markham | | First Name(s) | Clements Robert | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir | | Birth Year | 1830 | | Entry | Born July 20, 1830 : son of Rev. David F. Markham : educated at Cheam and Westminster : entered the Navy in 1844 : served in the Arctic expedition, 1850-1 : retired from the Navy, 1852 : travelled in Peru, 1852-4 : introduced cinchona trees from Peru into British India, 1859-62 : Geographer to the Abyssinian expedition : Secretary to the Roy. Geog. Society, 1863- 8 : Secretary to the Hakluyt Society, 1858-87 : Assistant Secretary in the India Office, 1867-77 : President of Roy. Geog. Society, 1894-1900, and of the Hakluyt Society : K.C.B. 1896 : author of many works, including Memoirs of the Indian Surveys, History of Persia, History of the Abyssinian Expedition, Missions to Tibet, Travels in Peru and India. |
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A List of eminent persons who served in British India, together with short biographical notes of each
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