Malbon, Thomas (1721-1777)

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Adm. sizar (age 17) at PETERHOUSE, July 4, 1719. Of Cheshire. Probably s. of Ralph (above). School, Congleton. ' Matric. 1719; LL.B. 1725. Perhaps Schoolmaster at Congleton. P.C. of Marton Chapel, 1724-41, and again, 1769-75; also R. of High Hoyland (Holland) in 1745. Probably brother of Joseph (1722). (T. A. Walker, 241; Earwaker, E. Cheshire, II. 394.)

Earwaker, east Cheshire, 2.394, quotes Marton parish register: 'Dec. 25. 1769. This day Thomas Malbon, Rector of High Hoyland [Holland] in Yorkshire, undertook the cure of Marton a second time, by a second Licence'. He was at Marton until 1775.
In Lichfield subscription book (LRO, B/A/4/32), noted that he was ordained Deacon by Francis, Chester, 19/7/1724, and priest by Samuel, Chester, 25/9/1726.

See also D. Robson, Some Aspects of Education in Cheshire in the Eighteenth Century, Chetham Soc., 3rd. ser., vol. 13 (1966), 182-3; E.A.G. Clark, 'Education in Congleton', in W.B. Stephens. ed., History of Congleton (Manchester, 1970), 274.

Son of Ralph Malbon [45232], whom he succeeded as master of Congleton Free Grammar School; brother of Joseph [17634].

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