Herbert Charles Malkin (21 September 1836 – 18 August 1913) was an English

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and a

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who played

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for

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

in 1858. He was born in

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, then called Calcutta, in

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and died at Corrybrough,

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Life

Malkin was the son of Sir Benjamin Heath Malkin, a judge of the supreme court in Calcutta, who died only a year after Herbert was born. His grandfather was also named

Benjamin Heath Malkin Benjamin Heath Malkin ( – G. Martin Murphy, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) was a British scholar and writer notable for his connection to the artist and poet William Blake. Career and education Malkin was born in London, and wa ...

and was a writer and educator who brought the works of

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to public attention. Herbert Malkin was educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

and at

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

, graduating from

in 1859 with a

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degree. After graduating from Cambridge, Malkin worked for a time as a schoolmaster at Charterhouse, his old school, before qualifying as a

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. From 1871 he acted as Clerk of Public Bills in the

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office in the

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; from 1897 to his retirement in 1901 he had the title "chief clerk". From 1879 to 1897 he was responsible for the ''Annual Statutes'' publication which recorded new laws in the period before the codification of UK statutes under ''

Halsbury's Statutes ''Halsbury's Statutes of England and Wales'' (commonly referred to as ''Halsbury's Statutes'') provides updated texts of every Public General Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, Measure of the Welsh Assembly, or Church of England Measur ...

'', and he served on committees dealing with statute law revision. He was also a local politician, being a member of Kensington Borough Council and a

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for the City of London. He inherited a grouse moor estate in Scotland from an uncle and it was there that he died in 1913.

Cricket

While at Cambridge, Malkin played several cricket matches for the university side, and two of them, both in 1858, have been judged to be of first-class status. He appears to have played as a batsman, though it is not known if he was right- or left-handed, and there is no evidence that he bowled; his only innings of note was a score of 27 made as an opening batsman in the match against the

Cambridge Town Club Cambridge Town Club (CTC) was a first-class cricket club established in Cambridge before 1817. Among notable players who represented CTC were Tom Hayward senior, Robert Carpenter and George Tarrant. It co-existed with Cambridge University Cr ...

in which he made his first-class debut. He continued to play minor cricket for

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clubs, including

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, across the 1860s but played no more matches with first-class status.

Family

Malkin married in 1879 Elizabeth Elliott, daughter of George Percy Elliott of

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. Herbert William Malkin was their only son.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Malkin, Herbert Charles 1836 births 1913 deaths English cricketers Cambridge University cricketers People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge English barristers 19th-century English lawyers