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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Markham, Gervase
MARKHAM, GERVASE or JERVIS (1568?–1637), author, brother of Francis Markham [q.
Gervase markham biography template
v.], and third son of Robert Markham of Cottam, Nottinghamshire, was born about 1568. In his early years he followed the career of arms in the Low Countries, and had a captaincy under the Earl of Essex in Ireland. Sir John Harington [q.
v.] and Anthony Babington [q.
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v.] were first cousins of the father. A letter of Harington in the 'Nugæ Antiquæ'(i. 260) mentions that when in Ireland he received many kindnesses from his cousin Markham's three sons. The eldest brother, Robert, was, according to Thoroton, 'a fatal unthrift and destrover of this eminent family,' and is possibly identical with the Captain Robert Markham who published in verse 'The Description of … Sir John Bvrgh … with his last Seruice at the Isle of Reer (London, 1628, 4to; reissued as ' Memoirs of … Sir John Burroughs or Burgh, Knt.,' in 1758).
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