Henry Malden (1800–1876) was a British academic.[1]

Life

He was the son of Jonas Malden, a Putney surgeon. Malden attended Preston's School and was a scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained a B.A. in 1822 and an M.A. in 1825.[2] He was the friend and associate of Thomas Babington Macaulay and John Moultrie.[3]

Malden was Professor of Greek at University College London from 1831 until 1876.[4] [5]

In 1833 he agreed to become joint headmaster (with the Professor of Latin) of University College School, a post he held until 1846.[3]

On 7 July 1843 at the Church of St. Mary & St. Nicholas, Leatherhead, in Surrey he married Georgiana Augusta Drinkwater Bethune (1810–1888), daughter of Colonel John Drinkwater Bethune and his wife Eleanor.[6] They had three children, including the historian H. E. Malden.

Works

  • History of Rome, Library of Useful Knowledge, London: Baldwin & Cradock, 1830.

References

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