, M. A. one of the most learned critics of the eighteenth century, was descended
, M. A. one of the most learned
critics of the eighteenth century, was descended from an
ancient family of that name, seated near Wigan, in Lancashire. He was one of the twelve children of the rev.
Ralph Markland, M. A. vicar of Childwall, in that county,
whose unblemished life and character gave efficacy to the
doctrines he preached, and rendered him an ornament to
the church of which he was a member. He was not, however, the author of a poem, frequently attributed to his
pen, entitled “Pteryplegia, or the art of Shooting Fly-,
ing,
” as it was one of the juvenile productions of his relative, Dr. Abraham Markland, fellow of St. John’s college,
Oxford, and above thirty years master of St. Cross, near
Winchester, of whose life and more important writings
Wood has made some mention.