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Arthur Malkin

Arthur Malkin

English cricketer, writer, and alpinist

Arthur Thomas Malkin (1803 – 1888) was an English writer, alpinist and cricketer.

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Life

The third son of Benjamin Heath Malkin and his wife Charlotte Williams, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Williams, headmaster of Cowbridge grammar school, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1820, graduating B.A. in 1825, M.A, in 1828.[1][2] He is likely the "Malkin" elected to the Cambridge Apostles in 1826.[3]

A civil engineering partnership with Angier March Perkins and James Philip Roy was dissolved in 1829.[4] He purchased an estate at Corrybrough, Tomatin, Inverness-shire, where he became a Deputy Lieutenant; and also resided at 21 Wimpole Street, London.[1][5]

Sportsman

Malkin was associated with Cambridge University Cricket Club and was recorded in one first-class match in 1826, totalling 11 runs with a highest score of 11 not out and holding no catches.[6]

In 1827 he was one of a rowing eight that took a boat from Cambridge to King's Lynn, then across The Wash to Boston, Lincolnshire. Others in the crew were Kenelm Digby and John Mitchell Kemble.[7]

Works

  • Biographies of eminent men in literature, arts, and arms, from the 13th century, Nattali & Bond, London, 1850
    • 1. - Dante to Raleigh
    • 2. - Lord Bacon to Leibniz
    • 3. - Somers to John Hunter
    • 4. - Gibbon to Wilberforce
  • Distinguished men of modern times, Knight, London 1838 (Bd. 1–4)
  • Gallery portraits with memoirs. Knight, London 1848[8]
  • Historical Parallels, Knight, London (3 vols.)[9]
  • History of Greece from the earliest times to its final subjection to Rome, Baldwin & Cradock, London 1829
  • Leaves from the Alpine notebooks, London 1890

Family

Malkin married:[1]

  1. Mary Anne Carr, daughter of John Addison Carr, Rector of Hadstock, Essex, in 1833;[10]
  2. Thomasine Gill, eldest daughter of Thomas Gill, M.P.

References

  1. [1]
    "Malkin, Arthur Thomas (MLKN820AT)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. [2]
    Murphy, G. Martin. "Malkin, Benjamin Heath". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/17885. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. [3]
    Eric W. Nye (23 January 2015). John Kemble's Gibraltar Journal: The Spanish Expedition of the Cambridge Apostles, 1830-1831. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 307 note 170. ISBN 978-1-137-38447-8.
  4. [4]
    The London Gazette. T. Neuman. 1829. p. 826.
  5. [5]
    E. Walford (1882). The county families of the United Kingdom. Рипол Классик. p. 422. ISBN 978-5-87194-361-8.
  6. [6]
    "Arthur Malkin". CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
  7. [7]
    W. H. Bernard Saunders, ed. (1889–91). "Fenland Notes & Queries. A quarterly antiquarian journal for the fenland, in the counties of Huntingdon, Cambridge, Lincoln, Northampton, Norfolk, and Suffolk". Internet Archive. pp. 176–8. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  8. [8]
    Volltext
  9. [9]
    Arthur Thomas Malkin (1831). Historical Parallels. p. v.
  10. [10]
    "Carr, John Addison (CR778JA)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.


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