Bror - Isiolo - sound of motor car - absurd! - it was Sir Charles Markham. "I want you to take my wife and me on a safari from the east to the west coast. As the crow flies, you understand, straight. Imagine a ruler ....…. "  

Cass - NFD - Sir Richard Turnbull - a man described as the finest of all PCs in the country remarked: "There was no shortage of alcohol. We had as much as we liked. I used to get mine shipped from London and wine arrived by the crate-load from Nairobi. Charles Markham had an ear to the ground. You could always count on him to put one on to the good stuff."

Debrett - Lieut. 2nd Life Guards 1918-19; sometime Hon. Attache, Cairo, and a FRGS; served with High Commn. in S. Russia 1920; is an Esquire of Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England

Curtis - p. 32 - Bush Life at Mtito Andei - by Con Humphris - 'A year or so before the Second World War, as a newlywed, I went to live in the bush country of Tsavo District. My husband had been engaged as assistant to Sir Charles Markham, the father of the present Sir Charles, to work in and on a small mine. This mine was under a low hill beside the main railway line between Darajani and Mtito Andei stations. This was very convenient. Goods trains passed during daylight hours and the drivers were all known to Sir Charles and my husband. Parcels and goods could be slung off in passing ......... [more on life and the magnesite mine]

East Africa & Rhodesia - 18/9/52 - Sir Charles Markham, whose death in Nairobi was briefly reported last week, entered the Diplomatic Service in 1919 and was at one time an honorary attache in Cairo. After an unsuccessful farming venture in this country, he crossed Africa in a motor caravan of his own design, passing through the Sahara desert, Nigeria, French Equatorial Africa, the Belgian Congo, and Kenya. Some years before the war he returned to Kenya and engaged in prospecting, in which his most successful venture was in kyanite. In the last war he served in the KAR. He had shot big game in many countries. The title devolves upon Mr Charles Markham, who lives in Limuru, Kenya, and in 1949 married Miss Valerie Barry-Johnston, only daughter of Lieut.-Col. And Mrs Barry-Johnston, of Thika.

EA Stud Book 1954 - Cattle - Jerseys - Lady Betty Markham, Taboga Estate, Limuru

Mischief - Gwladys - In 1920 against the wishes of her friends, she had married Sir Charles Markham, who was younger than herself and considered a waster. The marriage lasted 7 years with some conspicuous unfaithfulness on both sides.