- CA QUA02830
- Person
- 1852-1940
Edwin Markham (April 23, 1852 March 7, 1940; born Charles Edward Anson Markham) was an American poet. From 1923 to 1931 he was Poet Laureate of Oregon.
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Authority record- CA QUA10604
- Person
- 1872-1959
Violet Rosa Markham was a writer, social reformer, campaigner against women's suffrage and administrator. She grew up near Chesterfield, the daughter of Charles Markham, part owner of the profitable Markham Collieries and Markham & Co. When a friend of her late father died in 1901 Violet inherited enough money to live an independent life and devote her wealth to causes she supported, as well as to buy her own house in London. Her mother was a daughter of Sir Joseph Paxton, designer of the Crystal Palace, the centrepiece of the 1851 Great Exhibition.
Marlow, Reverend Doctor Michael
- CA QUA01145
- Person
- 1759?-1828
The Reverend Doctor Michael Marlow b. 7 Nov. 1758, s. of Michael Marlow, cleric, St.Leonard's, Middx. Educ. Merchant Taylors' School. Sir Thomas White scholar and Merchant Taylors' Fellow. He received his BA 1780; MA 1784; BD 1789;and DD 1795 from St. John's College, Oxford where he was also Fellow 1779-95; Barker's Exhibitioner 1780; Paddy's Exhibitioner 1782, 1786; Dean of Arts 1784-6; Logic Reader 1784; Waple's Lecturer 1785, 1787-90, 1793-4 Case's Preacher 1787, 1789, 1793; Henley's Exhibitioner 1787, 1789; Nat Phil. Reader 1787; Dean of Divinity 1788. Wood Bursar 1790; Senior Bursar 1791-2; Math. Lect. 1792; Vice-President 1793; Junior Bursar 1794; President 1795-1828. Ox. Univ.: Vice Chancellor 1798-1802; Select Preacher 1805, 1817; Curator of the Theatre; Delegate, of Accounts, of Appeals in Congregation. of Appeals in Convocation, of Privileges; Comr.
of Sewers. HO (d.1781): V. St.Giles', Ox. 1789-97 (res.); R. Handborough, Ox. 1795-1828; Preb. of Canterbury
1808-28. Publ.: 'A fast sermon on Isa.X 7 before the House of Commons' (1807). D. 16 Feb. 1828 in St.Johns Coll.
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