Gervase markham biography of rory

&#;MARKHAM, GERVASE or JERVIS (?–), author, brother of Francis Markham [q. v.], and third son of Robert Markham of Cottam, Nottinghamshire, was born about In his early years he followed the career of arms in the Low Countries, and had a captaincy under the Earl of Essex in Ireland.

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Sir John Harington [q. v.] and Anthony Babington [q. v.] were first cousins of the father. A letter of Harington in the 'Nugæ Antiquæ'(i.

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) mentions that when in Ireland he received many kindnesses from his cousin Markham's three sons. The eldest brother, Robert, was, according to Thoroton, 'a fatal unthrift and destrover of this eminent family,' and is possibly identical with the Captain Robert Markham who published in verse 'The Description of &#; Sir John Bvrgh &#; with his last Seruice at the Isle of Reer (London, , 4to; reissued as ' Memoirs of &#; Sir John Burroughs or Burgh, Knt.,' in ).

Apparently Gervase turned to literature in search of