ABSTRACT
The seventeenth-century Rev. Robert Malthus married the daughter of John Evans, MD, and it was possibly through this connection that his son Daniel became an apothecary in London under the internationally famous Dr Thomas Sydenham (1624-89). Daniel Malthus (1651-1717) was made a freeman of the Society of Apothecaries when he was twenty-seven; he set up his shop, with the sign of the Pestle and Mortar, in a tall house on the north side of Pall Mall, next door to Dr Sydenham's (both houses were later demolished to make way for Waterloo Place). Dr Sydenham had a great regard for Daniel Malthus, and appointed him a trustee for his children. 1 Mary Beale's painting of Dr Sydenham is in the National Portrait Gallery, but her chalk drawings of Mr and Mrs Daniel Malthus cannot be traced. 2
