John Malcolm

Son of Neill Malcolm 12th of Poltalloch and brother and heir of Neill Malcolm 13th of Poltalloch (both of whom q.v.). One of the great collectors of Victorian Britain, with an entry in the ODNB as 'art collector and landowner' with important cultural legacies at the British Museum (the Malcolm Collection of Old Master drawings) and the British Library (Sforza Book of Hours). There are also items in the Victorian & Albert Museum.

1. He left over £400,000 in personalty at his death.

Stephen Coppel, ‘Malcolm, John, of Poltalloch (1805–1893)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62981, accessed 15 Jan 2015]. The names of the children given by Coppel do not fit completely with other sources, which show also Leonard Malcolm.

Among other sources on his collections see J. C. Robinson, Descriptive catalogue of the drawings by the old masters, forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, esq. (privately printed, London, 1869) [reprinted in an expanded edition in 1876 with revised attributions and new preface by Malcolm].

1. National Probate Calendar 1893.