Victor Mallet

British diplomat and author

Sir Victor 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 John Adeane by his wife, Lady Elizabeth Yorke, daughter of the 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

Life with Queen Victoria: Marie Mallet's Letters from Court, 1887-1901 (editor), John Murray, London, 1968. ISBN 0719517834

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]

Ancestors of Victor Mallet

16. Jacques Mallet du Pan

8. John Lewis Mallet

4. Sir Louis Mallet

2. Sir Bernard Mallet

40. Samuel Pellew

20. Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth

41. Constantia Langford

10. Edward William Pellew

42. James Frowde, Esq.

21. Susan Frowde

5. Frances Helen Pellew

44. Benjamin Winthrop

22. Stephen John Winthrop

45. Elizabeth Neale

11. Marianne Winthrop

46. Gamaliel Lloyd

23. Mary Horton Lloyd

47. Elizabeth Attwood

1. Sir Victor Mallet

48. James Whorwood Adeane, MP

24. Robert Jones Adeane of Babraham, Cambridgeshire

49. Anne Jones, dau. of Robert Jones

12. Henry John Adeane, MP

50. Sir Patrick Blake, 1st Baronet, MP

25. Annabella Blake

51. Annabella Bunbury, dau. of Rev. Sir William Bunbury, 5th Baronet

6. Henry John Adeane, MP

52. Sir John Thomas Stanley, 6th Baronet

26. John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley

53. Margaret Owen, dau. of Hugh Owen of Penrhos

13. Matilda Abigail Stanley

54 John Baker Holroyd, 1st Earl of Sheffield

27. Hon. Maria Josepha Holroyd

55 Abigail Way, dau. of Lewis Way of Richmond, Surrey

3. Marie Adeane

56. Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor

28. Joseph Sydney Yorke, First Sea Lord

57. Agneta Johnson

14. Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke

58. James Rattray, of Ireland

29. Elizabeth Weake Rattray

7. Lady Elizabeth Yorke

60. Sir Henry Liddell, 5th Baronet

30. Thomas Liddell, 1st Baron Ravensworth

61. Elizabeth Steele, dau. of Thomas Steele of Hampsnett

15. Hon. Susan Liddell

62. John Simpson, of Bradley Hall

31. Maria Susannah Simpson

126. Thomas Lyon, 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

63. Lady Anne Lyon

127. Jean Nicholsen, dau. of James Nicholson of W. Rainton

References

MALLET, Sir Victor Alexander Louis, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012
The Papers of Sir Victor Mallet, Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge
Sir Victor Mallet (obituary), The Times, London, 19 May 1969, page 10

^ "No. 37278". The London Gazette. 2 May 1919. p. 4707.
^ "No. 34831". The London Gazette. 16 April 1940. p. 2240.
^ "No. 37278". The London Gazette. 21 September 1945. p. 4707.
^ "No. 38192". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 January 1948. p. 742.
^ "No. 34010". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1934. p. 6.
^ "No. 34641". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 June 1939. p. 4435.
^ "No. 36309". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1944. p. 6.
^ "No. 39555". The London Gazette (Supplement). 5 June 1952. p. 3011.

External links

Portraits of Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet at the National Portrait Gallery, London
"Archival material relating to Mallet, Sir Victor Alexander Louis (1893-1969) Knight Diplomat". UK National Archives.

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