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."] _fa bro son_, Admiral Sir Albert MARKHAM (b. 1841), K.C.B., Commander of the "Alert" in Arctic Expedition, 1875-1876; various high naval appointments, besides unprofessional work when unemployed on naval duties.--["Who's Who."] _me bro son_, Right Hon. Sir Frederick MILNER, Bart. (b. 1849), P.C., politician.--["Who's Who."] _me si son_, Right Hon. Francis FOLJAMBE (b. 1830), P.C., politician.--["Who's Who."] _me si son_, Right Hon. Sir Edwin EGERTON (b. 1841), P.C., G.C.M.G., Ambassador at Madrid, then at Rome.--["Who's Who."] _fa fa fa_, William MARKHAM (1719-1807), P.C., Archbishop of York; one of the best scholars of the day; Headmaster of Westminster School, 1753-1765; Dean of Christ Church; Preceptor to the Royal Princes, 1771; Archbishop and Lord High Almoner, 1777.--["Dict. N. Biog.," xxxvi. 172.] _fa fa bro_, Admiral John MARKHAM (1761-1827); many services at sea; twice on Admiralty Board; M.P. for Portsmouth during seventeen years; proposed and carried appointment of Commission on dockyard abuses, 1806.--["Dict. N. Biog.," xxxvi. 171.] _fa fa bro_, George MARKHAM (1763-1823), Dean of York; scholar and numismatist. Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story #MASKELYNE# (b. 1823), F.R.S., Hon. D.Sc., Oxon. Distinguished mineralogist; formerly Keeper of Minerals in British Museum; Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford, 1856-1895; M.P. for Cricklade, 1880-1885; for North Wilts, 1885-1892.--["Who's Who."] _me fa_, Nevil MASKELYNE (1732-1811), D.D., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal for forty-seven years; was the first man to weigh the earth; the originator of the Nautical Almanac.--["Dict. N. Biog."] _fa_, Anthony Mervyn Reeve STORY, F.R.S., gained a double first-class in Lit. Hum. and Mathematics, when nineteen years of age, at Oxford, in 1810.--["Oxf. Reg."] _si son_, John Story MASTERMAN, gained a first-class in Lit. Hum., 1872; Fellow of Brasenose, Oxford.--["Oxf. Reg."] _si son_, Herbert Warington SMYTH, Secretary, Mining Dept., Transvaal; Secretary, Siamese Legation, 1898-1901; Order White Elephant of Siam, 1897; author of "Five Years in Siam," etc.--["Who's Who."] _si son_, Major Nevill Maskelyne SMYTH, obtained V.C. at Battle of Khartoum.--["Who's Who."] _wife_, nee Dillwyn LLEWELYN. _wi fa fa_, Lewis Weston DILLWYN (1778-1855), F.R.S., well known as a botanist; established Cambrian Pottery Works at Swansea; M.P. for Glamorganshire, 1832-1841.--["Dict. N. Biog."]
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