Captain William Dawes Malton
(1829-1904)
15 November 1861

Volume 5, page 241, sitting number 6458. 

Born on 14 January 1829, William Dawes Malton was baptised at St Marylebone on 11 February 1829. He was the eldest son of William and Sarah Malton of 19 Devonshire Street. His father was a solicitor who later lived at 36 Wimpole Street, London. 

Following his education at Rugby and at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA 1850, MA 1853), he was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple on 1 June 1855. 

On 31 May 1853 at the British Embassy in Brussels William Dawes Malton, MA, of Wimpole Street, London, married Henrietta Elizabeth Frances Hopkins, youngest daughter of John Costell Hopkins, Esq., or Rowchester House, Berwickshire, Scotland.

On 24 April 1855 he became an Ensign in the 2nd or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlesex Militia. The following year he was promoted Lieutenant (by purchase). In 1860 he became a Captain in the Drumfries, Roxburgh, Kirkcudbright and Selkirk Militia. 

The couple appear on the 1861 census living at Claremont House, Surbiton Road, Kington-upon-Thames with their daughter Agnes, aged 6, and their son William, aged 1. The household included six servants. William gave 'Capt. of Militia, MA Cambridge' as his profession. 

In 1871 the family were living at Denmark House in Kew. Willam now gave 'Income derived from houses' as his profession. Whereas previously they had had a butler, they now only had a housekeeper, a cook and a housemaid. 

Mrs Malton died the following year, aged only 32. 

In 1881 William was a lodger at 5 Little St James's Street, a narrow street to the west of Pall Mall just behind St James's Palace. Other lodgers in the house included a tailor and his family, a governess, a cook and a 'gas and hot water fitter,' though there were also two lawyers and someone with a BA from Oxford. William once again declared that his income derived 'from houses and land.' Ten years later he was still lodging in the same house, a widower 'living on [his] own means.' 

In 1894 he remarried. His second wife was probably Annie Marion Holgate. Born in or about 1862, she would have been some thirty years younger than her 65-year-old husband. 

According to the abstract of his will, Captain William Dawes Malton 'of the Junior Carlton Club, Pall Mall' died on 5 March 1904 at Oxford and Cambridge Mansions, Hyde Park. He was 75 years of age and left effects valued at £3425.

His widow, the second Mrs Malton, died near Wimborne in Dorset on 4 September 1940, leaving effects valued at £2588.