ABSTRACT
We know from William Bray's diary that he went with Sydenham Malthus to Doctors Commons on 29 January 1800, to see about Daniel Malthus's will. Sydenham presumably inherited the family house, and the two unmarried daughters, Eliza Maria and Charlotte, moved to a cottage of their own in Albury; it was conveniently near one which had been built for their youngest sister and her husband, Edward Bray, so that the children could spend every summer in the country, their father riding down from London at week-ends.
