Markham
Markham names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Markham SIR CLEMENTS ROB- ERT, an English geographer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR CLEMENTS ROB- ERT, an English geographer; born in Stillingfleet, England, July 20, 1830. He accompanied an Arctic expedition in 1851; visited Peru in 1852-1854; visited Peru and India as commissioner to introduce cinchona plants into the latter country in 1860; was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society in 1863-1868; accompanied the Abyssinian expedition in 1867- 1868. He wrote: "Travels in Peru and India" (1862); "History of the Abyssinian Expedition" (1869); "History of Peru" (1892); "Richard III" (1906); "The Incas of Peru" (1910). He edited a number of reprints of works on South America for the Hakluyt Society, and, for several years, the "Geographical Magazine." He was president of the Royal Geographical Society and of the International Geographical Congress (1894-1899), and was created a K. C. B. in 1896. He died in 1916. MARK TWAIN. See CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE.
Markham (CHARLES) EDWIN
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
(CHARLES) EDWIN, an American poet; born in Oregon City, Ore., April 23, 1852; settled in California in 1857, and worked there during hood principally as a blacksmith. He worked his way through the San José Normal School and Santa Rosa College; became a writer of verse and stories for papers and magazines, and principal and superintendent of California schools. He was the author of "The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems" (1899); "The Man with the Hoe, with Notes by the Author" (1900); "The End of the Century" (poem 1899); "Lincoln, the Great Commoner" (1900); "The Mighty Hundred Years"; "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901); "The Poetry of Jesus" (essays) (1909); "The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems" (1914); "California the Wonderful" (1914).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's noted in 1921 that Sir Clements Markham "died in 1916" but said nothing of the work he is now best remembered for: as president of the Royal Geographical Society he drove the British National Antarctic Expedition of 1901-04 and personally chose the young Robert Falcon Scott to lead it, a patronage that shaped, and in the judgement of many later historians damaged, the whole heroic age of polar travel. His 1906 defence of Richard III also outlived him: the king's bones were found under a Leicester car park in 2012 and reburied in the cathedral in 2015. Edwin Markham, still living and writing when the 1921 entry appeared, died in 1940; "The Man with the Hoe" survives in anthologies as a protest poem, but the rest of the long list Collier's prints is now little read.
Written for this edition, 2026.