Author: Malcolm, David
Biography:
MALCOLM, David (1766-1833: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 29 Apr. 1766 (baptised 10 May) in the house attached to the school run by his father at Madderty, Perthshire. His parents were John Malcolm and Jean (Murray) Malcolm who had married on 28 Feb. 1762. He was taught by his father before attending the University of Edinburgh. He was licensed as a preacher but, failing to gain an appointment to a church, he began teaching with his father and developed plans—never realised—to open an academy at Crieff. His 1808 Genealogical Memoir of the Most Noble and Ancient House of Drummond (subscription edition, 1808) is dedicated to the Prince of Wales for whom he served as a chaplain in Scotland. He died at Madderty on 25 May 1833 and was buried there. (Peter Robert Drummond, Perthshire Poets 1800-1850 [1873]; ancestry.co.uk 26 Nov 2019, 12 Dec. 2025) SR