Person    | Male  Born 1830  Died 1916

Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.

Categories: History

Countries: Arctic & Antarctic, Peru

12 years President of the Royal Geographic Society. Born at Stillingfleet, Yorkshire. Drowned crossing a river in Peru.

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Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S.

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Markham

This monument in the memory of Sir Clements Markham, K.C.B., F.R.S. & 12 ...

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