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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Malkin    
First Name(s)  Benjamin Heath    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1797    
Death Year  1837    
Entry  Son of Benjamin Malkin, the miscellaneous writer : born Sep. 29, 1797 : educated at Bury St. Edmunds, and Trinity College, Cambridge : 3rd Wrangler, 1818 : Fellow : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, Feb. 11, 1823 : Recorder of Penang, 1832 : Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta : knighted : died there, Oct. 21, 1837 : a friend of Macaulay, who wrote his epitaph, A man eminently distinguished for his literary and scientific attainments, by his professional learning and ability, by the clearness and accuracy of his intellect, by diligence, by patience, by firmness, by love of truth, by public spirit, ardent and disinterested, yet always under the guidance of discretion, by rigid uprightness, by unostentatious piety, by the serenity of his temper, and by the benevolence of his heart. Macaulay had previously written�"" Malkin is a man of singular temper, judgment, and firmness of nerve. Danger and responsibility, instead of agitating and confusing him, always bring out whatever there is in him.""     
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