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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 20 July 1830, 1830
- Died
- 30 January 1916, 1916
- Place of birth
- Stillingfleet
- Place of death
- London
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Markham
- Father
- David Frederick Markham
- Field of work
- botany, geography, exploration, literature
- Occupation
- explorer, writer, geographer, civil servant, historian, translator, traveler, botanist
- Position held
- President of the Royal Geographical Society, president of the Hakluyt Society, secretary of the Royal Geographical Society
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Native language
- English
- Awards
- Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, Fellow of the Royal Society, Founder’s Medal, Imperial Order of the Rose
- contributed to creative work
- Dictionary of National Biography, Popular Science
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Dictionary of National Biography, third supplement, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica
- educated at
- Westminster School, Cheam School
- employer
- India Office
- has works in the collection
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- manner of death
- accidental death
- name in native language
- Clements Robert Markham
- participant in
- British expedition to Abyssinia
- place of burial
- Kensal Green Cemetery
- writing language
- English
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