* Markham, Clements R. ( 1921 ).

While stationed in St Kitts, West Indies, on, he had his first encounter with Clements Markham, then Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ), who would loom large in Scott's later career.

Early in June 1899, while home on leave, he had a chance encounter in a London street with Clements Markham ( now knighted and RGS President ), and learned for the first time of an impending Antarctic expedition under the auspices of the Royal Geographical Society.

Longstaff, impressed by Shackleton's keenness, recommended him to Sir Clements Markham, the expedition's overlord, making it clear that he wanted Shackleton accepted.

The National Antarctic Expedition, known as the Discovery Expedition after the ship Discovery, was the brainchild of Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographical Society, and had been many years in preparation.

* Markham, Sir Clements.

Colbeck originally planned to name the island Markham Island, after Sir Clements Markham but later decided to name it after Scott.

* Sir Clements Markham ( 1830-1916 ), a President of the Royal Geographical Society

* Sir Clements Robert Markham ( 1893 – 1905 )

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.

Wilson's statue on the Promenade in Cheltenham, modelled by Scott's widow Kathleen, was unveiled on 9 July 1914 by Arctic explorer Sir Clements Markham.

Sir Clements Robert Markham KCB FRS ( 1830 – 1916 ) was an English geographer, explorer, and writer.

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* Markham, Clements R. ( 1887 ) The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, Kt., to the East Indies.

Discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition ( 1901 – 04 ), it is named for Sir Clements Markham, who, as President of the Royal Geographical Society, planned the expedition and chose Robert Falcon Scott as its leader.

* Narratives of the voyages of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa to the Straits of Magellan ( translated and edited by Clements R. Markham )

Sir Clements Markham, the Royal Geographical Society president who opposed Borchgrevink's Antarctic plans

Under the influence of its president, Sir Clements Markham, this RGS project was envisaged not only as a scientific endeavour, but as an attempt to relive the former glories of Royal Naval polar exploration.

This generosity infuriated Sir Clements Markham and the geographical establishment, who saw Borchgrevink as a penniless Norwegian nobody who had secured British money which they believed ought to have been theirs.

In spite of the Southern Cross Expedition's achievements there was still resentment in geographical circles — harboured especially by Sir Clements Markham — that Borchgrevink's acceptance of Newnes's gift had deprived the National Antarctic Expedition of money.

In 1899 Bruce, by then Britain's most experienced polar scientist, applied for a post on Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery Expedition, but delays over this appointment and clashes with Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ) president Sir Clements Markham led him instead to organise his own expedition, and earned him the permanent enmity of the British geographical establishment.

James P. Clements became WVU's 23rd president on June 30, 2009.

Truman became president upon Roosevelt's death in 1945, and Chandler never forgave Clements for costing him the chance to be president.

He is the president of the HEMA Alliance, was a Senior Free Scholar in the Association for Renaissance Martial Arts, and John Clements, the director of that organization, recommends the game for its martial realism.

Smith's 2004 supporters included the Texas Eagle Forum, former Governor William P. Clements, Jr., ( for whom Smith worked in Clements ' second term ), former Congressman and Railroad Commissioner Kent Hance ( who opposed Clements in the 1986 Republican gubernatorial primary ), conservative / libertarian Congressman Ron Paul, and California activist Ward Connerly, president of the Civil Rights Institute.

Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Hospital and the now closed St. Clements Hospital, part of the Royal London Hospital, are nearby.

Sir Clements Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society

The river was named in 1873 by Captain John Moresby in honour of Sir Clements Markham, then secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.

The Death of General Wolfe is currently in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum ( Canadiana art collection ), as well as the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.

Andrew Clements ' review in The Guardian berated the effort, declaring that it was " both shocking and outrageous that the Royal Opera, a company of supposed international standards and standing, should be putting on a new opera of such wretchedness and lack of musical worth.

He had no previous polar experience but he was recommended to Scott by the ex-President of the Royal Geographical Society, Sir Clements Markham who had been the main organiser of Scott's earlier Discovery expedition.

Clements has the largest chapter of the National Honor Society per student population of any public high school in the nation.

The productions are open to all Clements students, and by being in shows and supporting other local theatre, one can earn ' points ' towards becoming an inducted member of the International Thespian Society troupe 3689.

In 1909 Sir Clements Markham was succeeded as President by Sir Albert Gray, an ex-member of the Ceylon Civil Service, and it was under Gray that the Society began for the first time to extend its activity beyond that of publication.

In one collaboration, first-generation bluegrass fiddler Vassar Clements, progressive mandolin player David Grisman, Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia ( on banjo ), and Peter Rowan on lead vocals played in the band called Old and in the Way.

Clements had called these end-points other terms, not climaxes, and had thought they were not stable, because by definition climax vegetation is best-adapted to the climate of a given area.

* In 2003, Chris Clements, a freelance writer with the Washington Post, called Art Bell to tell him he had evidence of a financial connection between the Bush family and the Bin Ladens.

Ecological succession was formerly seen as having a stable end-stage called the climax ( see Frederic Clements ), sometimes referred to as the ' potential vegetation ' of a site, and shaped primarily by the local climate.

Thus, it would appear that the name of St. Clements was selected by the rhymer simply for its consonance with the word ‘ lemons ’, and it now seems more likely that the melody called ‘ Oranges and Limons ’ predates the rhyme itself.

Song number 7 was called " This is the Kiss " by a group called Two-Che, featuring Irishman Paul Clements, and Manchester born Nicola Jackson.

Instead, the Republicans called former Governor Bill Clements out of retirement for the right to challenge Democratic Governor Mark White.

Vassar Clements originally wrote the basic melody an octave lower, in a tune called " Lonesome Fiddle Blues ".

As of the 2009 spring semester, a comedy improv troupe called Clements Improvisation Association ( CIA ) has confirmed yearly performances with one time auditions.

During his reconnaissance work for the British expedition against Emperor Tewodros, Clements Markham visited Senafe, finding it situated " at the foot of the grand mass of sandstone rock about half a mile north-west of the camp, called Amba-Adana.

The island in the middle of the bay is called Rodd Island, in honour of Brent Clements Rodd.