GERVASE MARKHAM BIOGRAPHY

MARKHAM, GERVASE (1568?-1637). —Translator and miscellaneous writer, served as a soldier in the Low Countries and Ireland. Retiring into civil life about 1593 he displayed extraordinary industry as a translator, compiler, and original writer. Among his original writings are a poem on the Revenge (1595) (Sir R. Grenville's ship), a continuation of Sidney's Arcadia , The Discourse of Horsemanshippe (1593), The Young Sportsman's Instructor , Country Contentments (1611), and various books on agriculture; also plays and poems, some of the latter of which are religious.