| Description | James Heywood Markland (1788-1864) was the son of Robert Markland of Manchester and Elizabeth nee Hibbert of Macclesfield. He attended school in Chester and worked as a solicitor in London after 1808. In 1821 he married Charlotte Freeling. Their daughter Elizabeth Jane married Rev Charles Conybeare, vicar of Itchen Stoke, Hampshire.Markland moved to Malvern in 1839 and later retired to Bath. He succeeded to the Pemberton estates near Wigan, Lancashire and was buried in Cheadle. His antiquarian activities led him to becoming an F S A in 1809 and to producing an 1818 edition of Chester Mysteries and an 1840 work on church memorials. He is described in DNB as a “strong and constant supporter of all church societies” |