Lieutenant-General Sir Edwin Markham KCB (28 March 1833 – 1 April 1918) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1892.
He passed out and commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1850[2] Markham served in the Crimean War.
[3][4] Markham served the Eastern campaign of 1854, and up to January 1855, including the affair of M'Kenzie's Farm, the Battle of Alma and the Battle of Inkerman, the Siege of Sevastopol and repulse of the Russian sortie on 26 October 1854 (he was awarded the medal with three clasps, appointed a Knight of the Legion of Honor and awarded the Turkish Medal).
He served in India in 1858, and was present at the action of Secundra on 23 January 1858 (he was awarded the medal).
[6] He retired from the army in March 1900,[7] but continued in command at Sandhurst for another two years, until he became incapacitated in July 1902.