MALCOLM. Three brothers of this name are known in the history of the East Indies. Sir Pulteney Malcolm, who rose to the rank of Admiral in the British navy, and in 1798 was employed in cutting out of vessels at Manilla. Sir Charles Malcolm, born in 1782, also a British naval officer, served under his brother Sir l'ulteney at Manilla in 1798. Ile saw much service during the war with France. He was knighted by Lord Wellesley at Dublin in 1826, became Rear-Admiral in 18374 He was appointed as the first Commander-in Chief of the Indian navy in 1827, where ho served till 1838, and instituted several extensive and important surveys along the shores of the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and Indian Ocean.
Sir John Malcolm, born 1769, entered the Madras army (1782) at the age of 18. When the Nizam's army took the field in Mysore against Tipu Sultan, Captain Malcolm accompanied it as Political Agent, and after the fall of Tipul Sultan and the reduction of Seringapatam, ho was associated with General Arthur Wellesley, Colonel Close, and Captain Munro in the commission ski pointed for the settlement of Mysore. He was on four occasions sent as ambassador.to the court of Persia in 1799 ; again in 1808, but was not allowed to advance beyond Bushire ; a third time whilst Sir Harford Jones was there ; and ho went a fourth time on a supplementary mission, but it was a mere pageant and very costly, though from it resulted his History of Persia and Pottinger'a Baluchistan.
During the war against the Pindara and Mahrattas, which lasted from the 5th November 1817 to the 13th May 1819 ; in all the operations of the war, as second in command at Me.hidpur; 21st December 1817, in the pursuit of Baji Rao and of Apa Sahib, and in the final reduction of tho fortress of Asirgarh, he was the prominent authority. At the close of that war ho was ap pointed to the civil and military command of Malwa, and in the year 1827 he became governor of Bombay. He was an active, able man, of large stature, with much energy and great bonhomie. Ile was a voluminous writer. Amongst his other books were—Sketch of the Political History of India from 1784 to the present time, London 1826; Observations on the Disturbances in the Madras Army in 1809, London 1812; History of Pergia from the most early period to the present time, London 1815 ; Report on the Province of Malwa and adjoining Districts, Calcutta 1822 ; Instructions to Officers acting under his Orders in Central India, 1821, London 1824 ; Sketch of the Sikhs ; History of Persia ; Letter on the Persian Army ; on the Present (1810) Condition of Persia ; Memoir of the Kajar Family ; on the Trade of the Persian Gulf ; Sketches of Persia.