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Henry Charles Malden (24 February 1829 – 13 June 1907)

Good source: https://archive.org/details/p2alumnicantabri04univuoft/page/298/mode/2up

Biography

 * 1829-02-24: born son of Charles Robert Malden and his wife Frances [née Cole] at Ryde, Isle of Wight (Windlesham School was originally located there: https://www.windlesham.com/we-are-different/our-history/)
 * 1837 Enters Windlesham House School


 * 1843 Leaves Windlesham House School


 * 1844-45 ("age 15") "goes to a coaching establishment at Wappenham, Northants, kept by his future father-in-law, the Rev. Thomas Scott".


 * 1847: Goes up to Trinity College, Cambridge


 * 1851: Graduates Cambridge, a football "blue"


 * 1851: Senior Tutor at Windlesham House under his father
 * 1855-05-23: Succeeds father as Headmaster of Windlesham House School on his death
 * 1855-08: Marries Euphemia "Effie" Margaret, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Scott


 * 1862: "Effie" dies durin childbirth


 * 1863: Commissioned as ensign


 * 1865-04: Married Catherine, daughter of John Eldad Waters


 * 1876 President of the Sussex Educational Society
 * 1883 (May) Captain "granted the honorary rank of major"
 * 1883 (Nov): "Captain and honorary major" resigns his commission; given "the Victorian decoration for long service".
 * 1886 Sat on Brighton Town Council
 * 1888: Retires as headmaster of Windlesham House School after attack of typhoid fever; succeeded by his son Charles Scott


 * 1889:Retires to Crowborough (long way from Brighton)
 * 1892: Leaves Brighton Town Council


 * 1893: Still at Windlesham House??
 * 1897 Moves to Godalming
 * <= 1897: Living in Godalming; Writes letter to Alcock about Cambridge Rules. Was letter originally to the FA?  (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17460260600661315?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=rsih20)
 * 1901: Sits on Godalming Town Council
 * 1907: Died 13 June

Other

 * Identified (hyperbolically) as one of "6 Men Who Changed the Course of Football History": https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1738613-6-men-who-changed-the-course-of-football-history
 * "H. C. Malden can certainly claim as great a share of the history of football as Webb Ellis". Goodhard and Chataway,War Without Weapons (1968).


 * "The conference [i.e. the 1848 meeting] was not without influence, however, since its action brought into being a number of outside clubs ... including Sheffield, Hallam and Forest, each playing a variation of the Cambridge Code (https://www.google.com/books/edition/Football_the_American_Intercollegiate_Ga/Aa5HAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22h+c+malden%22&pg=PA30&printsec=frontcover)


 * Wilson "what might be considered the first unified Laws of the Game". https://www.google.com/books/edition/Inverting_The_Pyramid/l0dXDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22h+c+malden%22&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover


 * "Perhaps these [1848] rules were adapted for some games. But the variety of practice that Malden described in fact continued for some time". https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_History_of_the_University_of_Cambridge/VoMPRz8nYQEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22h+c+malden%22&pg=PA669&printsec=frontcover
 * Photo (with Windlesham pupils): https://www.facebook.com/2386884491363559/photos/henry-charles-malden-son-of-the-founder-and-hm-of-the-school-from-1855-to-1888-w/2386891924696149/


 * Photo: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AzBQY2FDNzs/VvAh6GFoB_I/AAAAAAAAGtI/cNihbb3lVEUqYH9ythy5SR0VX8fh6fN5g/s1600/h%2Bc%2Bmalden%2B1855-1858a.jpg


 * Gravestone: http://www.godalmingmuseum.org.uk/index.php?page=henry-charles-malden