Edwin Markham (British Army officer)
{{Short description|British Army general (1833–1918)}}
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Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Markham {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} (28 March 1833 – 1 April 1918) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1892.
Early life
Markham was born in Aberford, Yorkshire on 28 March 1833, the son of Colonel William Markham and Lucy Anne Markham.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jJFIAQAAMAAJ&q=Sir+Edwin+Markham+Lucy+Anne+Markham&pg=PA203|title=A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland|volume=2|first=John |last=Burke|publisher=Henry Colburn|year=1835|page=203}}
Military career
Markham was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He passed out and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1850{{London Gazette|issue=21167|page=3537|date=31 December 1850}} Markham served in the Crimean War."Death of Sir Edwin Markham." Times [London, England] 2 April 1918: 3. The Times Digital Archive. Web. 31 December 2015.[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/charles-benedict-davenport/naval-officers-their-heredity-and-development-hci/page-17-naval-officers-their-heredity-and-development-hci.shtml Naval officers, their heredity and development by Charles Benedict Davenport] Markham served the Eastern campaign of 1854, and up to January 1855, including the affair of M'Kenzie's Farm, the Battle of Alma and the Battle of Inkerman, the Siege of Sevastopol and repulse of the Russian sortie on 26 October 1854 (he was awarded the medal with three clasps, appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honor and awarded the Turkish Medal). In 1855, he took command of the 2nd Division in the Crimea. He served in India in 1858, and was present at the action of Secundra on 23 January 1858 (he was awarded the medal).{{cite web|url=http://digital.nls.uk/british-military-lists/archive/100836813?mode=transcription/|title=British Military Lists|accessdate= 8 January 2018}} He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1892 and went on to be Director General of Ordnance in 1896 before being made Governor and Commandant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst in 1898.{{cite web|url=https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1900/may/14/royal-military-college-sandhurst-sir-e |title=Royal Military College, Sandhurst|work= Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)|date=14 May 1900|access-date=8 January 2018}} He retired from the army in March 1900,{{London Gazette|issue=27179 |page=2199 |date=3 April 1900}} but continued in command at Sandhurst for another two years, until he became incapacitated in July 1902.{{cite web|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10913F83A5F12738DDDAA0994DF405B828CF1D3 |title=Sandhurst affair growing in importance; Incapacity of General Sir Edwin Markham – Lord Rosebery Said to be En-listed on the Side of the Expelled Cadets|work= The New York Times|date=1 July 1902|accessdate=8 January 2018}}
Family
On 8 February 1877 at Woolwich he married Emily Evelyn Lucy Stopford (1854-1919). They had two sons and a daughter (Muriel Markham, Montagu Wilfred Markham and Edwyn Guy Markham).{{cite web|url=http://thepeerage.com/p5222.htm#i52217 |title=Sir Edwin Markham |publisher=The Peerage.com|accessdate=18 December 2018}} Markham died on 1 April 1918 in Brighton, Sussex, aged 85.
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