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unusual facts about Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet



Bridgeman baronets

The Bridgeman Baronetcy, of Ridley in the County of Chester, was created on 12 November 1773 for Orlando Bridgeman, Member of Parliament for Horsham and younger son of the 1st Baronet, of the Great Lever creation.

John Copley

For over 50 years Copley has been the partner of John Hugh Chadwyck-Healey (born 1922), grandson of Charles Chadwyck-Healey, 1st Baronet.

Sir Arthur Markham, 1st Baronet

On his death, his eldest son, Charles, became the 2nd Baronet Markham of Arusha, East Africa.

His sister Violet Markham also stood as an Independent Liberal for Mansfield at the 1918 general election.

Markham was born on 25 August 1866 at Brimington Hall in Brimington, near Chesterfield.

Viscount Hanworth

Pollock was the fifth son of Mr George Pollock, fourth son of Sir Frederick Pollock (1st Baronet, of Hatton) (elder brother of Field Marshal Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet, of The Khyber Pass).


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