[Illustration] A remote branch of an ancient Nottinghamshire family,
which can be traced to the time of Henry II. The name is derived
from Markham, near Tuxford, in that county, but Coatham was
afterwards the family seat, until it was sold by Markham, "a fatal
unthrift," who was the brother of the antiquary Francis Markham;
this was about the end of the reign of Elizabeth. William Markham,
Archbishop of York, who died in 1807, was the ancestor and restorer
of this worthy family; he was descended from Daniel, a younger son
of the House of Coatham. Becca-Hall has been in possession of the
Markhams since the end of the last century.
See Markham's History of the Markhams, privately printed, 8vo. 1854;
the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, 1859; and the
Topographer, vol. ii. p. 296, for Markham of Sedgebrook, co.
Lincoln, extinct 1779.
ARMS.--_Azure, on a chief or a demi-lion rampant issuing gules_. The
Markhams of Sedgebrook bore their arms differenced by a border
argent.
Present Representative, William Thomas Markham, Esq.