Henry Elliot Malden (8 May 1849,

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, March 1931), known as H. E. Malden, was, for 30 years, honorary secretary of the

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, of which he was a Fellow. The son of

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, a professor of

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, he was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich and

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, where he obtained, in 1872, a second-class degree in the

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. He won the Chancellor's Medal for English verse in 1871. Malden became a

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, editing the

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. He married, in 1879, Margaret Eleanor Whatman of Kitlands,A small estate near

and had five sons and three daughters.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Malden, Henry Elliot 1849 births 1931 deaths Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge Contributors to the Victoria County History 19th-century English historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society History of Surrey Local historians People educated at Ipswich School People from Bloomsbury 20th-century English historians