MALAN, Charles Henry (son of rev. Solomon Cæsar Malan b. 1812). b. 19 Aug. 1837; ed. Sandhurst; ensign 7 royal fusiliers 6 Nov. 1854, captain 4 June 1858; wounded in assault on Redan 18 June 1855; captain 75 foot 10 Dec. 1858, major 14 Oct. 1868; aide de camp to sir David Russell in Canada; served in China, then at Cape Town; sold his commission 17 July 1872 and devoted himself to Africa and Africa’s mission work. d. 42 Stanhope gardens, London 17 May 1881. bur. Brompton cemetery 20 May.
MALCOLM, Alexander. b. 1813; timber merchant at Venice, leased forests in the Tyrol and established saw mills at Longarone; known as signor Alessandro; lent his palace on the grand canal, Venice, to the empress Frederick in 1890 and 1892; consulted by the Italian government on commercial matters; hon. representative of the P. & O.S.N. Co. at Venice. d. Venice 22 Jany. 1893.
MALCOLM, Andrew George. b. 1820; M.D. and L.R.C.S. Edinb. 1842; practised at 81 York st. Belfast 1842 to death; physician Belfast general hospital 1856; V.P. of Belfast clinical and pathological soc. 1856; contributed to Dublin quarterly journal; author of The sanitary state of Belfast with suggestions for its improvement 1852; An introduction to clinical study or an interpretation of symptoms and signs 1856. d. Rathmines, Dublin 19 Sep. 1856.
MALCOLM, Sir Charles (10 son of George Malcolm of Burnfoot, Dumfriesshire, d. 1803). b. Burnfoot 5 Sep. 1782; entered navy April 1795; captain 29 Dec. 1802; commanded royal yachts William and Mary 1822–6 and Royal Charlotte in attendance on the marquess Wellesley lord lieut. of Ireland 1826–7; knighted by marquess Wellesley 1826; superintendent of Bombay marine 28 Nov. 1827 to 1837, its name was changed to the Indian navy 1 May 1830; R.A. 10 Jany. 1837, V.A. 28 April 1847; member of council of Royal Geogr. Soc. d. Brighton 14 June 1851. C.R. Low’s History of the Indian navy 2 vols. (1877) i 494 etc.
MALCOLM, Duncan Archibald. Entered Bombay army 1823; lieut. 3 Bombay N.I. 17 Jany. 1827, major 27 May 1849 to death; political agent Gwalior 2 Aug. 1851 to death. d. Baroda 1 Oct. 1855.
MALCOLM, George Alexander (son of general sir John Malcolm). b. 21 Jany. 1810; ensign in the army on h.p. 31 Dec. 1825; lieut. 3 foot 7 June 1827, captain 30 Dec. 1831; captain 60 foot 20 April 1832; captain 3 light dragoons 18 Dec. 1835, major 13 Dec. 1839, placed on h.p. 16 May 1845; A.D.C. to governor of Bombay 1828–30; A.D.C. to lieut. general in China war 1841–42; A.Q.M.G. Egypt 1858–59; col. 105 foot 10 March 1866 to death; general 16 May 1874; placed on retired list 21 Jany. 1880; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; (m. 4 Dec. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child of Edward Vernon archbishop of York, she was b. June 1807 and d. 29 Oct. 1886). d. 87 Sloane st. London 2 June 1888. J. Burke’s Portrait gallery of distinguished females, i 43 (1833), portrait of his wife.
MALDEN, Henry (4 son of Jonas Malden of Putney, surgeon). b. 1800; entered Trin. coll. Camb. Oct. 1818, Craven scholar 1821, chancellor’s classical medallist 1822; B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; fellow of Trinity 1824; professor of Greek at London univ. (afterwards Univ. coll. London) 1831–76; joint head master of Univ. college school 1833–42; author of History of Rome to B.C. 390. 1830,; On the origin of universities and academical degrees 1835; contributed to Connop Thirlwall’s Philological Museum 1830, to Leonard Schmitz’s Classical Museum 1843–50, and to Trans. of Philological-Soc. d. 39 Belsize sq. South Hampstead 4 July 1876, portrait by Lawlor in Univ. coll. London. Graphic, xiv 102, 108 (1876), portrait; Testimonials in favor of H. Malden, candidate for office of rector of Edinburgh academy 1824.
MALDEN, Jonas. b. Putney 1792; pupil of John Abernethy; ed. at univ. of Edinb., M.D. 1815; practised at Worcester about 1816 to 1858; physician to Worcester infirmary 1818–58; author of Practical observations on the cow pox. d. Cheltenham 31 March 1860.
MALET, Sir Alexander, 2 Baronet (1 son of sir Charles Warre Malet, 1 bart. d. 24 Jany. 1815). b. 23 July 1800; ed. at Winchester and at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1822; student M.T. 1822; attached to embassy at St. Petersburgh, March 1824, and at Paris, Feb. 1827; paid attaché at Lisbon, Dec. 1833; sec. of legation at Turin, July 1835, and at the Hague, Jany. 1836; sec. of embassy at Vienna, Nov. 1843; envoy at Stuttgart, Sep. 1844; envoy to Germanic confederation 12 Feb. 1852 to 20 Sep. 1866 when mission was withdrawn, retired on a pension; K.C.B. 23 June 1866; author of Some account of the fagging at Winchester school, with remarks on the expulsion for resistance to the prefects 1828; The Canadas, the nature of their connection with Great Britain, the discontents of the colonies discussed 1831; The conquest of England from Wace’s poem of the Roman de Rou 1860; The overthrow of the German confederation by Prussia 1870. d. 19 Queensberry place, Cromwell road, London 28 Nov. 1886. The Biograph, iii 458–62 (1880).
MALET, Arthur (brother of the preceding). b. 7 Nov. 1806; ed. at Winchester, Addiscombe and Haileybury; entered Bombay civil service 1824; political agent and resident at Kutch 1842; political agent at Kathiawar 1843; secretary to government of Bombay, political and secret departments 1846; chief secretary to Bombay government 1847; member of legislative council of India 1854; member of Bombay council April 1855–60; chief judge of court of Sudder Dewannee and Sudder Foujdarree Adawlut 1857; retired 1860; author of The marriage of Solomon with the daughter of Pharoah, a drama 1876; A metrical version of the Psalms 1863, another ed. 1880; The book of Job in blank verse 1880; Koheleth, Ecclesiastes arranged in verse 1880; The book of Revelation arranged 1880; Notices of English branch of Malet family 1885. d. 45 Linden gardens, Bayswater, London 13 Sep. 1888.