Gervase Markham

Gervase Markham (21 June 1978^[1] – 27 July 2018)^[2] was a British computer scientist, engineer and writer.^[3] He worked for the Mozilla Foundation,^[4] and was a lead developer of Bugzilla. He started working on the Mozilla project in 1999^[4] and became the youngest paid employee of Mozilla.org at age 23.^[5]

Gervase Markham

Markham was born in Morland, Cumbria. He studied at Oxford University. Markham was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer in 2006.^[6][7] He died on 27 July 2018 from the disease at his home in Loughborough, Leicestershire, aged 40.^[8]

References

1. "About Me". gerv.net.
2. gerv (2019-03-07). "Invitation to a Service of Thanksgiving | Hacking for Christ". Retrieved 2024-06-15.
3. "Going Home | Hacking for Christ". blog.gerv.net. February 16, 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-03-30. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
4. Rhys Blakely (September 13, 2005). "Charity with 100 million fans". The Sunday Times. London. Archived from the original on 2008-01-11. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
5. "Taming the Lizard". New Architect. July 2, 2002. Retrieved 2007-12-31.
6. Gervase Markham (April 1, 2006). "Thank God for Cancer". Retrieved 2007-01-02.
7. Gervase Markham. "Cancer".
8. "Kuhn: In Memoriam: Gervase Markham [LWN.net]". lwn.net.