Gervase Markham

He was 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.

He was a soldier of fortune in the Low Countries, and later was a captain under the Earl of Essex's command in Ireland.

The story of the murderous quarrel between Gervase Markham and Sir John Holles related in the Biographia (s.v.

Holles) has been generally connected with him, but in the Dictionary of National Biography, Sir Clements R. Markham, a descendant from the same family, refers it to another contemporary of the same name, whose monument is still to be seen in Laneham church.

He produced numerous books on husbandry, many of which are catalogued in William Thomas Lowndes's Bibliographer's Manual (Bohn's ed., 1857–1864).