He was the father of the first and only Lord Sunderlin, and of Edmund Malone junior, the noted Shakespearean scholar.
[3] He practised successfully in England for a number of years, but in time encountered serious difficulties in his profession, and with a wife and growing family to support, thought it best to return home.
Since Anthony had also been Serjeant this family "hat-trick" was unprecedented, and caused some unfavourable comment, especially as both the Malone parents came from families which were traditionally Roman Catholic, at a time when the Penal Laws preventing Roman Catholics from practising law, or any other profession, were quite strictly enforced.
They had two surviving sons, Edmund and Richard Malone, 1st Baron Sunderlin, and two daughters, Henrietta and Catherine.
[1] Since his elder brother Anthony had no issue, on his death in 1776, he left all the family estates to his nephew Richard, who however died childless in 1816.