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See also:SIR CLEMENTS See also:ROBERT See also:MARKHAM (183o- ) , See also:English traveller, geographer and author, son of the Rev . See also:David F . See also:Mark-See also:ham, See also:canon of See also:Windsor, and of See also:Catherine, daughter of See also:Sir W . See also:Milner, See also:Bart., of Nunappleton, See also:Yorkshire, was See also:born on the loth of See also:July 183o at See also:Stillingfleet, near See also:York, and educated at See also:Westminster School . He entered the See also:navy in 1844, became See also:midshipman in 1846, and passed for a See also:lieutenant in 185r, In 1850-185r he served on the See also:Franklin See also:search expedition in' the'See also:Arctic regions, under See also:Captain See also:Austin . He retired from the navy in 1852, and in 1852-1854 travelled in See also:Peru and the forests of the eastern See also:Andes . He visited See also:South See also:America again in 186o-1861, in See also:order to arrange for the introduction of the See also:cinchona plant into See also:India, a service of the highest value to humanity . In 1865-1866 he visited See also:Ceylon and India, to inspect and See also:report upon the See also:Tinnevelly See also:pearl-See also:fishery and the cinchona plantations . On the Abyssinian expedition of 1867-68 he served as geographer, and was See also:present at the storming of See also:Magdala . In 187.4 he accompanied the Arctic expedition under Sir See also:George See also:Nares as far as See also:Greenland . In later years Sir Clements See also:Markham travelled extensively in western See also:Asia and the See also:United States . In 1855 he became a clerk in the See also:Board of See also:Control .
From 1867-1877 he was in See also:charge of the See also:geographical See also:department of the See also:Indian See also:Office
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He was secretary to the See also:Hakluyt Society from 1858-1887, and became its See also:president in 189o
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From 1863-1888 he acted as secretary to the Royal Geographical Society, and on his retirement received the society's See also:gold See also:medal for his distinguished services to See also:geography
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He was elected president of the same society in 1893, and retained office for the unprecedented See also:period of twelve years, taking an active See also:share in the See also:work of the society and in increasing its usefulness in various directions
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It was almost entirely due to his exertions that funds were obtained for the See also:National See also:Antarctic Expedition under Captain See also:Robert See also:Scott, which See also:left See also:England in the summer of 1901
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Sir Clements Markham was elected F.R.S. in 1873; was created C.B. in 1871, and K.C.B. in 1896; became an honorary member of the See also:principal geographical See also:societies; and was president of the See also:International Geographical See also:Congress which met in See also:London in 1895
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Sir Clements Markham conducted the Geographical See also:Magazine from 1872–1878, when it became merged in the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society
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Among his other publications may be mentioned the following: Franklin's Footsteps (1852); See also:Cuzco and See also:Lima (1856) ; Travels in Peru and India (1862) ; A See also:Quichua See also:Grammar and See also:Dictionary (1863) ; See also:Spanish See also:Irrigation (1867) ; A See also:History of the Abyssinian Expedition (1869); A See also:Life of the See also:Great See also:Lord See also:Fairfax (187o) ; 011anta, a Quichua See also:Drama (1871); Memoir on the Indian Surveys (1871 ; 2nd ed., 1878) ; See also:General See also:Sketch of the History of See also:Persia (1873); The See also:Threshold of the Unknown Region (1874, 4 See also:editions); A Memoir of the Countess of Chinchon, (1875); See also:Missions to Thibet, (1877; 2nd ed., 1879); Memoir of the Indian Surveys; Peruvian Bark (188o) ; Peru (188o); The See also:War between Chili and Peru (1879-81; 3rd ed., 1883) ; The See also:Sea Fathers (1885) ; The Fighting Veres (1888); Paladins of See also: |
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