# Charles Robert Malden > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Charles_Robert_Malden > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Charles_Robert_Malden.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Robert_Malden > Source revision: 1352932514 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) British naval officer, surveyor and educator This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Charles Robert Malden" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Charles Robert Malden Born (1797-08-09)9 August 1797 Putney, Surrey Died 23 May 1855(1855-05-23) (aged 57) Brighton, East Sussex Allegiance United Kingdom Branch Royal Navy Rank First Lieutenant Conflicts Napoleonic Wars War of 1812 **Charles Robert Malden** (9 August 1797 – 23 May 1855) was a nineteenth-century British [naval](/source/Royal_Navy) officer, surveyor and educator. He is the discoverer of [Malden Island](/source/Malden_Island) in the central [Pacific](/source/Pacific), which is named in his honour. He also founded [Windlesham House School](/source/Windlesham_House_School) at [Brighton](/source/Brighton), England. ## Biography Malden was born in [Putney](/source/Putney), [Surrey](/source/Surrey), son of Jonas Malden, a surgeon. He entered British naval service at the age of 11 on 22 June 1809. He served nine years as a volunteer 1st class, [midshipman](/source/Midshipman), and [shipmate](/source/Shipmate), including one year in the [English Channel](/source/English_Channel) and [Bay of Biscay](/source/Bay_of_Biscay) (1809), four years at the [Cape of Good Hope](/source/Cape_of_Good_Hope) and in the [East Indies](/source/East_Indies) (1809–14), two and a half years on the North American and West Indian stations (1814–16), and a year and a half in the [Mediterranean](/source/Mediterranean) (1817–18). He was present at the capture of [Mauritius](/source/Mauritius) and [Java](/source/Java_(island)), and at the battles of [Baltimore](/source/Battle_of_Baltimore) and [New Orleans](/source/Battle_of_New_Orleans). He passed the examination in the elements of [mathematics](/source/Mathematics) and the theory of [navigation](/source/Navigation) at the [Royal Naval Academy](/source/Royal_Naval_Academy) on 2–4 September 1816, and became a 1st Lieutenant on 1 September 1818. In eight years of active service as an officer, he served two and a half years in a surveying ship in the Mediterranean (1818–21), one and a half years in a surveying sloop in the English Channel and off the coast of Ireland (1823–24), and one and a half years as Surveyor of the frigate [HMS *Blonde*](/source/HMS_Blonde_(1819)) during a voyage (1824–26) to and from the [Hawaiian Islands](/source/Hawaiian_Islands) (then known as the "Sandwich islands").[1] In Hawaii he surveyed harbours which, he noted, were "said not to exist by Captains Cook and Vancouver." On the return voyage he discovered and explored uninhabited Malden Island in the central Pacific on 30 July 1825. After his return he left active service but remained at half pay. He served for several years as [hydrographer](/source/Hydrographer) to King [William IV](/source/William_IV). He married Frances Cole, daughter of Rev. William Hodgson Cole, rector of [West Clandon](/source/West_Clandon) and Vicar of [Wonersh](/source/Wonersh), near [Guildford](/source/Guildford), Surrey, on 8 April 1828. Malden became the father of seven sons and a daughter. From 1830 to 1836 he took pupils for the Royal Navy at [Ryde](/source/Ryde), [Isle of Wight](/source/Isle_of_Wight). He purchased the school of [Henry Worsley](/source/Sir_Henry_Worsley%2C_2nd_Baronet) at [Newport](/source/Newport%2C_Isle_of_Wight), Isle of Wight, in December 1836, reopened it as a [preparatory school](/source/Preparatory_school_(UK)) on 20 February 1837, and moved it to Montpelier Road in Brighton in December 1837. He built the [Windlesham House School](/source/Windlesham_House_School) at Brighton in 1844, and conducted the school until his death there in 1855. He was succeeded as headmaster by his son [Henry Charles Malden](/source/Henry_Charles_Malden). ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-macrae_1-0)** James Macrae (1922). William Frederick Wilson (ed.). [*With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands in 1825: Being Extracts from the MS Diary of James Macrae, Scottish botanist*](https://archive.org/details/withlordbyronat00macrgoog). W.F. Wilson. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-554-60526-5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-554-60526-5). {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#invalid_isbn_date)) ## Further reading - O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). ["Malden, Charles Robert"](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Naval_Biographical_Dictionary/Malden,_Charles_Robert). [*A Naval Biographical Dictionary*](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Naval_Biographical_Dictionary). [John Murray](/source/John_Murray_(publishing_house)) – via [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource). - Malden, John (2023). 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