Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was a poet and classical scholar who was professor of Greek at University College in London (1831-76). He contributed to Knight's Quarterly Review.

REFERENCES TO Henry Malden:

Thomas Babington Macaulay to Charles Knight, 20 June 1823 in Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865)