Henry Elliot Malden FRS (8 May 1849, in Bloomsbury – March 1931, in Dorking), known as H. E. Malden, was, for 30 years, honorary secretary of the Royal Historical Society, of which he was a Fellow.^[1]

The son of Henry Malden, a professor of Greek,^[2] he was educated at Queen Elizabeth's School, Ipswich and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he obtained, in 1872, a second-class degree in the Classical Tripos. He won the Chancellor's Medal for English verse in 1871. Malden became a local historian, editing the Victoria County History of Surrey.^[1]

He married, in 1879, Margaret Eleanor Whatman of Kitlands,^{[nb 1]} Surrey and had five sons and three daughters.^[1]