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 commanded on the coast of Holland, with the fleets of France and Spain under his orders; and in 1833-4 was again commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean. He was nominated a G.C.M.G. on 21 Jan. 1829, and a G.C.B. on 26 April 1833. He died on 20 July 1838. He married, in January 1809, Clementina, eldest daughter of the Hon. William Fullarton Elphinstone, a director of the East India Company, and elder brother of Lord Keith.

 MALCOLM, SARAH (1710?–1733), criminal, was born at Durham, of north-country parents, about 1710. On the death of her mother she left her father, who had been living in Dublin, and became a charwoman at the Temple in London. Among her employers was as Mrs. Lydia Duncomb, an aged widow, who lived in Tanfield Court in the Inner Temple. On 4 Feb. 1733 this lady and her two servants were found murdered, and a trunk containing valuables broken open and rifled. One of the occupants of the same staircase, a Mr. Kerrel or Kerrol, who also employed Malcolm, instantly suspected her of the crime. She was arrested at the Temple gate, and forthwith committed to Newgate. She was condemned to death at the Old Bailey 24 Feb. While in the condemned cell she was painted ad vivum by William Hogarth, who is said to have remarked to Sir J. Thornhill during the sitting, 'I see by this woman's features that she is capable of any wickedness.' A replica passed into Horace Walpole's possession; the original belonged to Boydell, and was lent by Jane Dundas to the National Portrait Exhibition of 1868. Several engravings were made of the picture (a three-quarter length), with additions and variations (see Gent. Mag. March 1733). One (out of eleven different engravings), preserved in the print room at the British Museum, bears the inscription 'No recompense but love.' At the woman's back to the right is a figure in a wig and band holding a ring, and through a window to the left is seen the execution. The figure was that of Malcolm's 'reverend confessor,' named Piddington or Peddington (d. 1734), curate of St. Bartholomew the Great, 'who is supposed to have made some amourous overtures to Sarah.' A report was current at the time that Malcolm was incited to the murder by a gentleman whose name she suppressed, though she tried to implicate two brothers named Alexander. She was executed on 7 March 1732-3, opposite Mitre Court in Fleet Street, 'dressed in a crape mourning gown, holding up her head in the cart with an air, and looking as if she were painted, which some did not scruple to affirm.' Before burial in St. Sepulchre's graveyard her corpse was exhibited in Snow Hill, whither multitudes resorted, 'among the rest a gentleman in deep, new mourning, who kissed her, and gave the people half-a-crown.' Professor Martin dissected the murderess, and afterwards 'presented her skeleton in a glass case to the Botanic Gardens at Cambridge.' The very striking portrait by Hogarth constitutes her chief claim to remembrance.

 MALCOLME, DAVID (d. 1748), philologist, was licensed as a preacher by the presbytery of Haddington on 11 Jan. 1700, was called in 1704, and ordained on 28 March 1705 to the ministry of Duddingston, near Edinburgh. He was rebuked on 10 Nov. 1721 for celebrating the marriage of George Drummond, afterwards lord provost of Edinburgh, to Catherine, daughter of Sir James Campbell of Aberuchill, Perthshire, and was deposed on 24 March 1742 for deserting his charge two years without leave. His claim on the ministers' widows' fund was disallowed. He died on 7 Feb.1748 (Scots Mag. x. 50). On 12 Aug. 1736 he was elected F.S.A. ([,] Chronolog. List Soc. Antig. 1798, p. 6).

Malcolme was an accomplished philologist, especially in regard to the Celtic languages. Although not a highlander, he was so remarkably exact in the Erse etymology of place-names that, without seeing the places, he could tell their precise situation (, British Topography, ii. 487 n.) In 1732 he