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    Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS FRSGS (20 July 1830 – 30 January 1916) was an English geographer, explorer and writer. He was secretary of the Royal...
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    but the name Chinchón (pronounced [tʃinˈtʃon] in Spanish) led to Clements Markham and others proposing a correction of the spelling to Chinchona, and...
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  • The Markham Valley is a geographical area in Papua New Guinea. The name "Markham" commemorates Sir Clements Markham, Secretary of the British Royal Geographical...
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    a Royal Navy officer. In 1899, he had a chance encounter with Sir Clements Markham, the president of the Royal Geographical Society, and learned of a...
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    Impressed by Shackleton's keenness, Longstaff recommended him to Sir Clements Markham, the expedition's overlord, making it clear that he wanted Shackleton...
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    tulip tree. Native to Africa, Markhamia was named in the honour of Clements Markham (1830-1916), who worked in India. An evergreen small tree that grows...
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    than on the uncertain evidence she has so misleadingly presented." Clements Markham suggests the princes may have been alive as late as July 1484, pointing...
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    Markham's grandfather, William Markham, had been Archbishop of York. He was a cousin and close friend of Sir Clements Markham. Albert was born in Bagnères-de-Bigorre...
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    who as his guardian had the power to decide whom he would marry. Clements Markham, writing in 1906, claimed that Richard III had "liberated" Warwick...
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    Baring Henry Bruce John Campbell Richard Strachey M. E. Grant Duff Clements Markham 20th century George Goldie Leonard Darwin George Curzon Douglas Freshfield...
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    The English translation by Clements Markham included illustrations of some of the Indian plants by Cristóvão da Costa. Markham considered da Costa's work...
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    000 km (620 mi) journey across the inland ice that almost killed them. Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, called the journey the...
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    was named in 1873 by Captain John Moresby, R.N., in honour of Sir Clements Markham, then Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society. A single-lane steel...
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    originality. There is an English translation of the Colóquios by Sir Clements Markham (1913) which included an introductory biography. Colóquios dos simples...
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  • 1903–05, under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, gave the name Ile Clements Markham for Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society, 1893–1905...
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  • Salisbury John Roddam Spencer Stanhope Dudley, 24th Baron de Ros Sir Clements Markham John, 9th Duke of Argyll Winifred, Duchess of Portland Simon, 14th...
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    kilometres (620 mi) journey across the inland ice that almost killed them. Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, called the journey the...
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    expedition. Colbeck originally planned to name the island Markham Island, after Sir Clements Markham, but later decided to name it after Scott. Haggits Pillar...
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    history if you can; it is better than games." He was named after Sir Clements Markham, mentor of Scott's polar expeditions, and a godfather along with J...
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    japannews.yomiuri.co.jp (in Japanese). Markham, A. H. (1917). "Childhood and school-days". The Life of Sir Clements R. Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S. London: John Murray...
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  • 1988 Pakistani covert military operation in Indian-controlled Kashmir Clements Markham (1864), "Tupac", Contributions towards a grammar and dictionary of...
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    December 2014. Markham, Sir Clements Robert (1881). The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society. J. Murray. p. 23. Markham, Sir Clements Robert (1881)...
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    thus legitimising his wife. Amateur historians Bertram Fields and Sir Clements Markham have claimed that he may have been involved in the murder of the Princes...
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    derivative is Cinchona, the appellation selected by Carl Linnaeus in 1742; Clements Markham preferred "Chinchona", ), wife of the new viceroy, who had just arrived...
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  • Bridget Markham (1579–1609), a British courtier Sir Clements Markham (1830–1916), a President of the Royal Geographical Society Col Markham (1940–2020)...
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  • Expedition, 1901–04, under Otto Nordenskjöld, who named it for Sir Clements Markham. "Markham Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological...
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    of Richard. Other defenders of Richard include the noted explorer Clements Markham, whose Richard III: His Life and Character (1906) replied to the work...
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    of Shanghai, China, to begin the tea plantations of Assam. In 1860, Clements Markham used Wardian cases to smuggle the cinchona plant out of South America...
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    22 May 1905 – 25 May 1908 (1905-05-22 – 1908-05-25) Preceded by Sir Clements Markham Succeeded by Leonard Darwin Governor of the Royal Niger Company In...
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    "mischievous rivalry" by Royal Geographical Society (RGS) president Sir Clements Markham. Bruce reacted by obtaining independent finance; his venture was supported...
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