MARKLAND, JEREMIAH, one of the most learned scholars and acute critics of his age, was born in 1692 at Childwall in Lancashire, and received his education in Christ's Hospital, and at St Peter's College, Cambridge. Having taken his degree of M.A. in 1717, he soon after became a fellow and tutor in his college, a position which he subsequently resigned for that of a travelling tutor on the Continent. He became first publicly known by his Epistola Critica, addressed to Bishop Hare. In this he gave many proofs of extensive erudition and critical sagacity. He afterwards published an edition of the Sylloge of Statius (London, 1728), and the Supplices (1763) and Iphigenias (1771) of Euripides; and he assisted Dr Taylor in his editions of Lysias and Demosthenes by the notes which he communicated to him. He also very happily elucidated some passages in the New Testament, which may be found in Mr Boyer's edition of it; and he was author of a volume of valuable remarks on the Epistles of Cicero to Brutus, and of an excellent little treatise under the title of Quæstio Grammatica. He died in 1776 at Milton, near Dorking in Surrey, where he had spent the greater part of a long life in the closest retirement, admired alike as a scholar and as a man.