OBITUARY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2683, 1 February 1916, Page 5

OBITUARY

SIR' CLEMENT MARKHAM. Br MegrODli—Press Association—Copyright (Reo. January 31, 9.10 p.m.) London, January 31 The death is recorded of Sir Clement Harkham; liis demise followed upon shook from burns sustained during a fire which broke out at his residence.' [Sir Clement Markliam, distinguished explorer and author, was horn in 1920, and educated at Cheltenham School, and Westminster; entered the Navy jn 1844; served in the Arctic Expedition of 1850-51; left the Navy 1852; travelled' in ' Peru, 1852-54: introduced the cultivation of tho ciuin-ine-yielding chinchona trees from I'cru into British India, 1859-62; (geographer to tins Abyssinian Expedition; Sicroi'ary fo the Royal Geographical Society, 1863-88; Secretary to tho Haiduyt Society, 1858-87; Assistant Secrotavv in the India Office, 1867-77. Publications: "Life of the Great Lord Fairfax, 11 "The Fighting Veres," "History of Peru," "Threshold of tho- Unknown Region," "Memoir of tlie Indian Survoys," "History of Persia," "History of tho "Abyssinian Expedition," "Missions .to Tibet," "Lives of Columbus, John Davis, and Major Renliell," "Travels in Peru and India," "Ollanta," an Inca drama, translated from tho QnicFiia, "Tho Paladins of Edwin the Great, 1596," "Richard 111, His Life and Character, 1907," "Ouic'lua Dictionary, 1908," "Life of Sir Leonold M'Clintoek, 190!)," "The Story o7 Majorca and Minorca, 1909," "Tho Incas of Peru, 1910," and other works; edited twenty-two volumes for the Haliluyt Society, two for tho Navy Records Society, one of the Rosturclie JM.4, " U