Gervase Markham

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1568 - 1637

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Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (ca. 1568 – 1637) was an English poet and writer. Very little is known of the events of his life. Markham was probably born in 1568. He was a soldier of fortune in the Low Countries. Later on he became a captain under the Earl of Essex's command in Ireland. He had a thorough command of Latin and several modern languages, and had an practical acquaintance with forest management and agriculture. He was a renowned horse-breeder, and is said to have imported the first Arabian horse.
Gervase Markham was buried at St Giles’s in Cripplegate, London 1637. Markham was a voluminous writer on many subjects, but repeated himself, and sometimes reprinted books under other titles. Markham is best known for his work The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman, first published in London in 1615.

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