MARKLAND

markland, jeremiah (1693-1776), english classical scholar, was born at childwall in lancashire on the 29th (or 18th) of october 1693. he was educated at christ's hospital and peterhouse, cambridge. he died at milton, near dorking, on the 7th of july 1776. his most important works are _epistola critica_ (1723), the _sylvae_ of statius (1728), notes to the editions of lysias by taylor, of maximus of tyre by davies, of euripides' _hippolytus_ by musgrave, editions of euripides' _supplices_, _iphigenia in tauride_ and _in aulide_ (ed. t. gaisford, 1811); and _remarks on the epistles of cicero to brutus_ (1745). see j. nichols's _literary anecdotes_ (1812), iv. 272; also biography by f. a. wolf, _literarische analekten_, ii. 370 (1818).