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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[MARK WICK 
Markwick (William), afterwards Eversfield, ob. 1812 ? 
William Markwick was, as we learn from Berry’s Sussex 
Pedigrees (London, 1830 ), the son of James Markwick of 
Catsfield, near Battle, and Mary, daughter of Charles Evers- 
field of Denne Place, Horsham. They were married at 
Eastbourne (or East Bourne as Berry styles it) on June 10, 
1735 . “ William Markwick took the name of Eversfield, by 
order of the will of Olive Eversfield his aunt,” from whom he 
inherited the Eversfield estates ; he died April 6, 1812. He 
became a Fellow of the Linnean Society on May 15 , 1792 . 
It is probable that Markwick changed his name in 1807 , at 
any rate “all the papers communicated by him to the 
Linnean Society between 1789 and 1807 are entered as having 
been sent by William Markwick, and the name of Eversfield 
is nowhere to be found in the Society’s archives ” (cf. article 
by J. E. Harting, Zoologist , 1890 , p. 335 , entitled “ On 
an unpublished MS. of William Markwick on the Birds of 
Sussex.”) Markwick was an enthusiastic sportsman as well 
as a naturalist, and he also seems to have taken an active 
part in county affairs. He was a magistrate for the Battle 
division of the Hastings Rape, and several documents signed 
by him in that capacity are in the Westfield Place Library. 
The exact date of his death is doubtful ; Berry, as mentioned 
above, gives it as 1812 , while John White, in a note to his 
“ Advertisement ” to the quarto edition of The Natural 
History of Selborne, 1813 , states, “ This gentleman who sub- 
sequently changed his name to Eversfield, in consequence of 
succeeding to the Estates of his uncle, the late Sir C. Evers- 
field Bart, of Denn Place, died at his seat at Catsfield, near 
Battle in Sussex, on the 6th of last month.” The note being 
dated “ Selborne, May 10 , 1813 .” 
1791. On the Migration of Certain Birds, and on other Matters relating 
to the feathered Tribes. (Trans. Linn. Soc. i. pp. 118-30, pi. ix.) 
1798. Aves Snssexienses ; or, a Catalogue of Birds found in the County 
of Sussex, with Remarks, by William Markwick, Esq., F.L.S. 
Read May 5th, 1795. 
