Background
William Markby was born on the 31st of May, 1829, the 4th son of Reverend W. Henry Mark by, Bachelor of Divinity, Duxford Rectory, Cambridge, and Sophia, daughter of John Randall.
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William Markby was born on the 31st of May, 1829, the 4th son of Reverend W. Henry Mark by, Bachelor of Divinity, Duxford Rectory, Cambridge, and Sophia, daughter of John Randall.
William Markby studied at King Edward’s School, Bury St. Edmunds. He also attended College Oxford.
Markby was called to the bar in 1853, and in 1866 was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Bengal. On his retirement from the bench in 1878, Markby was knighted, and the couple returned to England, where Markby took up the newly created Readership in Indian Law at Oxford, a post he held until 1900. He was also Tutor and Senior Bursar of Balliol College under Jowett.
In March 1879 Markby bought the southernmost plot of land to the east of Pullens Lane that was being sold by John Marriott Davenport.
William Markby was an acclaimed judge, who is well remembered for the active interest that be took in the Indian Institute, where successful candidates for the Indian Civil Service received a preliminary training, and for his work as Bursar of Balliol. He was made D. C. L. of Oxford in 1879, and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (KCIE) in 1889.
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