Educated under Parr at Norwich and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, he was preacher at Lincoln's Inn (1824-33), bishop of Chichester (1831) and of Durham (1836-56). Sydney Smith described him as “a thoroughly amiable, foolish, learned man.”

REFERENCES TO Edward Maltby, bishop of Durham:

Samuel Parr to Francis Burdett, 26 September 1802 in Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828)

Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, 7 March 1809 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Sydney Smith to Lady Holland, [1819 c.] in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Henry Drury to Francis Hodgson, January 1829 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878)

Sydney Smith to Lady Grey, 8 October 1841 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)

Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 4 June 1843 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)