Victor Mallet

Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet GCMG CVO (9 April 1893 – 18 May 1969) was a British diplomat and author.

Career

Victor Alexander Louis Mallet was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. In 1914 he joined the Cambridgeshire Regiment and served during World War I with the British Expeditionary Force and later in Ireland, reaching the rank of Captain. He joined the Diplomatic Service in 1919[1] and held posts in Tehran 1919–22 and 1933–35, Buenos Aires 1926–28, Brussels 1929–32, Washington D.C. 1936–39 and in the Foreign Office 1922–26 and 1932. He was Envoy to Sweden 1940–45 during World War II[2] and Ambassador to Spain 1945–46[3] and to Italy 1947–53.[4]

Family

Victor Mallet was son of Sir Bernard Mallet and his wife Marie, daughter of Henry Adeane by his wife, the former Lady Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of 4th Earl of Hardwicke]. His mother was a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria and he was godson to the Queen. His book Life with Queen Victoria, a record of his mother's letters written during her service, was published in 1968.

He married Christiana Jean Andreae, daughter of Herman Anton Andreae, of Moundsmere Manor, in Hampshire, and his wife, Christiana Candida (née Ahrens) in 1925; they had three sons and a daughter, Anne Marie, who married Patrick Butler, 18th/28th [[Baron Dunboyne]in 1950].

Publications

Honours

Victor Mallet was appointed CMG in the New Year Honours of 1934[5] and CVO in 1939.[6] He was knighted KCMG in the New Year Honours of 1944[7] and raised to GCMG in the Queen's Birthday Honours of 1952.[8]

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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
Sir Edmund Monson, 3rd Baronet
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Sweden
1939–1945
Succeeded by
Sir Bertrand Jerram
Preceded by
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Madrid
1945–1946
Succeeded by
Sir Douglas Howard
Preceded by
Sir Noel Charles
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome
1947–1953
Succeeded by
Sir Ashley Clarke
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