Charles Malcolm

Rear Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm RGS
Born	1782
Died	1851
Occupation	armed services
Society Membership membership ESL Ordinary Fellow left 1851 deceased elected_ESL 1844.01.12 clubs Athenaeum Club societies Royal Geographical Society

Notes

Office Notes

ESL Council 1843-44 President?
ESL Council 1844-45 President
ESL Council 1845-46 President [asks to resign May 1846]
ESL Council 1846-47 President, [Vice President in Dec. 1846]
ESL Council 1847-48 Vice President
ESL Council 1848-49 Vice President
ESL Council 1849-50 Vice President
ESL Council 1850-51 President
ESL Council 1851-52 President [dies 14 June 1851]

House Notes

1845.06.11 Sir Charles Malcolm, Captain Grover, and Richard King, MD were appointed delegates from the Society to the British Association meeting at Cambridge
1846.05.23 Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm having expressed his determination to resign as President of the Society, & Samuel Duckworth Esq. as Treasurer of the Society, it was Resolved that James Cowles Prichard MD be requested to allow his name to be put in nomination at the Anniversary Meeting on the 29th instant as President, & Sir James Clark Bart MD as the Treasurer of the Society; that Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm & Lord Francis Egerton MP be requested in the same manner to be put in nomination as Vice Presidents in the room of His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin & James Cowles Prichard MD.
1849.04.19 resolved that a Committee be appointed to consider the present condition and future prospects of the Society and that the following gentlemen be elected members of that Committee: Sir Charles Malcolm, William Spence Esq., G.B. Greenough Esq., Joseph Fletcher Esq., Thomas Hodgkin MD, Thomas May Esq., William Ogilby Esq., Dr Latham, and that these form a quorum
1850.03.22 'That a committee consisting of Mr Dunn, Mr Greenough, Dr R.G. Latham, Thomas Hodgkin MD, Mr Nash and Sir C. Malcolm, with power to add to the number, be appointed for the purpose of considering the means of improving the prospects of the Society’

represents the Society at the BAAS in Edinburgh 1850; delegate to BAAS at Ipswich 1851
1851.06.27 death announced at Brighton on 14 June
1856.05.28 Mr Tait, one of our members, has kindly presented a copy of a lithograph portrait handsomely framed and glazed, taken from his excellent one of our late President, Vice Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm. This picture adorns the library.
Obit JES vol. 3 1854

Notes From Elsewhere

Sir Charles Malcolm (1782–1851) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer, who reached the rank of vice-admiral.

During his later years he gave attention to the organisation of charitable institutions. He also served on the council of the Royal Geographical Society. He died at Brighton 4 June 1851, and was buried there

Member of the Athenaeum Club from 1849

Publications

External Publications

Diary and letter books of Vice Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm and other members of the Malcolm of Burnfoot Family, including his sons, George and Pulteney Malcolm.
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