Short answers, pulled from the story.
Edmond Malone entered the world on the 4th of October 1741 within a Dublin household. He grew up at Shinglas, a country estate in County Westmeath after his father returned to Ireland following a failed London practice.
Thomas Southwell introduced Edmond Malone to Samuel Johnson during a significant meeting that occurred in 1764. This encounter became the most important moment of his life according to biographer Peter Martin.
In May 1778 Edmond Malone published An Attempt to Ascertain the Order in Which the Plays Attributed to Shakspeare Were Written within a ten-volume edition edited by George Steevens. This essay established chronological order for Shakespeare's works for the first time.
Membership in The Club remained elusive until the 5th of February 1782 when David Garrick's memory had dimmed enough. Malone attended his first meeting on the 19th of February 1782 becoming treasurer of the exclusive group founded in 1764.
Edmond Malone entered the fray in December 1781 signing an article Misopiclerus in The Gentleman's Magazine. He compared Rowley poems to actual contemporary writers showing Chatterton borrowed from Shakespeare and Pope.
Edmond Malone died on the 25th of May 1812 leaving detailed instructions for his library. Lord Sunderlin announced donation of part of the collection to Bodleian Library in 1815 while others sold at Sotheby's in 1818 before the Bodleian received the collection officially in 1821.