[1][2] He was born in Kolkata, then called Calcutta, in India and died at Corrybrough, Tomatin, Inverness-shire, Scotland.
[3] His grandfather was also named Benjamin Heath Malkin and was a writer and educator who brought the works of William Blake to public attention.
[3] After graduating from Cambridge, Malkin worked for a time as a schoolmaster at Charterhouse, his old school, before qualifying as a barrister.
He was also a local politician, being a member of Kensington Borough Council and a Justice of the Peace for the City of London.
While at Cambridge, Malkin played several cricket matches for the university side, and two of them, both in 1858, have been judged to be of first-class status.