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English cricketer, writer, and alpinist
Arthur Thomas Malkin (1803 – 1888) was an English writer, alpinist and
cricketer .
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]
Mary Anne Carr, daughter of John Addison Carr, Rector of Hadstock, Essex, in 1833;
[10]
Thomasine Gill, eldest daughter of
Thomas Gill , M.P.
References
^
a
b
c
"Malkin, Arthur Thomas (MLKN820AT)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
^ 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.)
^ 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 .
^
The London Gazette . T. Neuman. 1829. p. 826.
^ E. Walford (1882).
The county families of the United Kingdom . Рипол Классик. p. 422.
ISBN
978-5-87194-361-8 .
^
"Arthur Malkin" . CricketArchive. Retrieved 18 June 2013 .
^ 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 .
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Volltext
^ Arthur Thomas Malkin (1831).
Historical Parallels . p. v.
^
"Carr, John Addison (CR778JA)" . A Cambridge Alumni Database . University of Cambridge.
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