Person | Male Born 1830 Died 1916

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

Categories: History

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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