Gervase Markham (programmer)
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Mozilla Foundation
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, and a lead developer of Bugzilla
Bugzilla
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. He started contributing to the Mozilla
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project in 1999, and became the youngest paid employee of Mozilla.org at age 23 after he graduated from Oxford University.
Markham is named after his paternal grandfather Canon Gervase Markham (1910-2007), the squire and vicar of Morland near Penrith; both are related to the 16th century poet and writer Gervase Markham
Gervase Markham
Gervase Markham was an English poet and writer, best known for his work The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman first published in London in 1615.-Life:Markham was the third son of Sir Robert Markham of Cotham, Nottinghamshire, and was...
. According to his Times obituary, the elder Gervase Markham was a descendant of William Markham, Archbishop of York (1710–1807).
In 2006, he won a Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award
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as "Best Community Activist". He has also presented to the FOSDEM
FOSDEM
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conference for several years about the Mozilla Foundation activities and Bugzilla.
Markham is a born-again Christian, and has been undergoing treatment for metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma
Adenoid cystic carcinoma
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He has written about both, and the relationship he sees between them.