Andrew Malcom was born at Hillhall, County Down, and was educated in Glasgow. He was ordained a Presbyterian minister in Dunmurry in 1807 and two years later moved to Newry. He was a hymn-writer and published A Collection of Four Hundred and Five Psalms and Hymns in Newry in 1811. He contributed to the Newry Magazine and was one of its founders.

Born:	15 September 1782
Died:	12 January 1823