George Markham (priest)

George Markham (30 March 1763 – 30 September 1822)[1] served as Dean of York[2] from 1802 and Rector of Stokesley[3] until his death.[4] He was born into a large clerical family, the third son of William Markham, Archbishop of York from 1776 to 1807;[5] his brother John Markham was a noted Naval officer, and one of his sisters was Frederica Murray, Countess of Mansfield.[9] He married Elizabeth Evelyn,[10] daughter of Sir Richard Sutton, of Norwood in 1789:[11] the marriage was to end in divorce in 1803.[12] Of their children: After the divorce, Elizabeth Evelyn Markham was taken under the wing of her cousin Laura Pulteney, 1st Countess of Bath.She married her lover John Fawcett, adultery with whom was the basis of the divorce, and he took the surname Pulteney.
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