Introduction
Lieutenant General Sir Edwin Markham KCB (28 March 1833 – 1 April 1918) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
Early life
Markham was born in Aberford, Yorkshire on 28 March 1833, the son of Colonel W Markham and Lucy Anne Markham.
Military career
Markham was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, he passed out and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1850 and served in the Crimean War (being present at the Battle of Alma, Battle of Inkerman and the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55)) and in India. He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1892 and went on to be Director General of Ordnance some four years later before being made Governor and Commandant of the Royal Military College Sandhurst in 1898. He became incapacitated in July 1902.
Family
In 1877 at Woolwich he married Emily Evelyn Lucy Stopford; they had two sons and a daughter. Markham died on 1 April 1918 in Brighton, Sussex, aged 85.