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An English geographer, explorer, writer en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clements_Robert_Markham "Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS (20 July 1830 – 30 January 1916) was an English geographer, explorer, and writer. He was secretary of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) between 1863 and 1888,[1] and later served as the Society's president for a further 12 years. In the latter capacity he was mainly responsible for organising the National Antarctic Expedition of 1901–04, and for launching the polar career of Robert Falcon Scott." See also the New York Sun., March 17, 1918, Section 6 Books and the Book World, Page 2 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1918-03-17/ed-... "Clements Robert Markham was the son of a Yorkshire clergyman of the Church of England and the great grandson of Dr. William Markham, who was Archbishop of York from 1777 to 1807. He was bom on July 20, 1830, and died on January 29, 1916, being accidentally burned to death while reading in bed by the light of a candle."

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Hilda Rodwell Jones Ormsby (1877-1973), geographer; one of the founding members of the Institute of British Geographers in 1933; author of London on the Thames (1924), France (1931), and Mitteleuropa (1935). Her brother Llewellyn Rodwell Jones was also on the geography faculty at LSE. Hilda Rodwell Jones married George V. Ormsby (1885-1950) in 1920; George was eventually chief of the London bureau of the Wall Street Journal. (Information taken from her Oxford DNB entry: www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62412 )

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