Author: Mallock, David
Biography:
MALLOCK, David (c.1807-66: ancestry.com)
He was born in Scotland, the second son of Andrew and Mary Mallock, and graduated AM from the University of Edinburgh. (The Immortality of the Soul, which he published with revisions in 1832, won a prize at the University in the academic year 1826-7.) He contributed to the Border Magazine in 1831-2, by which time he was engaged as a private tutor in the Lavies family in Westminster and is recorded as having delivered a lecture on celestial mechanics to the local Cooperative Society. His father established a tarpaulin-making business in a house on Millbank where Mallock lived for the rest of his life, evidently unmarried, as part of a large household--the two parents, three sons, and five daughters of 1841 being reduced to the mother, three sons, and three daughters by the time of the census of 1861. Mallock was a schoolmaster and an active member of the City of Westminster Literary, Scientific, and Mechanics' Institution. He died in London and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. (ancestry.com 4 Jan. 2020; S. E. Thomas, Celebrities of the Day [1881] 2:212; The Westminster Contribution [1839]) HJ