Malcolm Edward Falkus (13 January 1940 – 28 November 2017) was an English economic historian and academic.
He and his twin brother, the publisher Christopher Hugh Falkus, were educated at a Marist Convent in Paignton, Devon and then at St Boniface's College, Plymouth.
[7] Other corporate histories were of the accountancy firm Coopers and Lybrand (1993)[8] and the Blue Funnel Steam Ship Company (1995).
In June 2008, Falkus was arrested in Pattaya and charged with paying 12-year-old boys for sex, and was bailed on a surety of 200,000 baht.
The steady supply of such notes to collectors ceased immediately when Falkus was charged and no longer had access to the Lloyds archives.
Falkus claimed he bought the notes that he sold to collectors from an anonymous man in a pub and was acquitted despite strong contrary evidence.
[citation needed] On 28 November 2017, Falkus was found hanged by the neck (aged 77) at his home in Arrandale Lodge Earlham Road Norwich.