Author: Malcolm, John
Biography:
MALCOLM, John (1792-1835: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 16 Oct. 1792 (baptised 20 Oct.) at Firth and Stenness, Orkney, where his father, also named John Malcolm, was a minister; his mother’s name was Katherine (Sinclair) Malcolm. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 42nd regiment (the Black Watch) and first went to serve in the Penninsular War at the Siege of Saint Sebastian in 1813. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Toulouse in 1814 and spent the rest of his life in delicate health and lame. Turning to literature, he became a regular contributor of poetry and prose to Edinburgh periodicals before taking up the post of editor of the Edinburgh Observer. He died of tuberculosis on 8 Sept. 1835. He also published Tales of Flood and Field (1829). (ancestry.co.uk 27 Nov 2019; Obituary in New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal [1835] 268-69; Fife Herald 17 Sept. 1835) SR