Herbert Charles Malkin

Herbert Charles Malkin (21 September 1836 – 18 August 1913) was an English lawyer and a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1858. He was born in Kolkata, then called Calcutta, in India and died at Corrybrough, Tomatin, Inverness-shire, Scotland.

Life Malkin was the son of Sir Benjamin Heath Malkin, a judge of the supreme court in Calcutta, who died only a year after Herbert was born. His grandfather was also named Benjamin Heath Malkin and was a writer and educator who brought the works of William Blake to public attention. Herbert Malkin was educated at Charterhouse School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating from Cambridge University in 1859 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He continued to play minor cricket for amateur clubs, including Southgate Cricket Club, across the 1860s but played no more matches with first-class status.