Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet GCMG

Order of St Michael and St George

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 (9 April 1893 – 18 May 1969) was a British

United Kingdom

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 diplomat and author.

The son of Sir Bernard Mallet

Bernard Mallet

Sir Bernard Mallet, KCB was a British civil servant.He was the son of Sir Louis Mallet.. He was educated at Clifton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He became private secretary to Arthur Balfour. Later, he was Registrar General and President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1916 to 1918...

 and Marie Adeane, and the godson of Queen Victoria, he was educated at Winchester College

Winchester College

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 and Balliol College, Oxford. He married Christiana Jean Andreae in 1925; they had three sons and a daughter, Anne Marie Mallet. His daughter was wife of the 28th Baron Dunboyne

Baron Dunboyne

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 (27 Jan 1917 - 19 May 2004) and mother of John Fitzwalter Butler, 19th Baron Dunboyne (b. 1951). One of the sons was Sir William Ivo Mallet

Sir William Ivo Mallet

Sir William Ivo Mallet, British diplomat, came from a Norman family, Mellet, settling in England with the 1066 Norman Invasion, was UK Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Yugoslavia, 1951–1954, as well as UK Ambassador to Spain, 1954–1960, GBE, KCMG, retiring to Switzerland.He was...

, also a diplomat.

After serving in France

French Third Republic

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 and Ireland

Ireland

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 with the Cambridgeshire Regiment

Cambridgeshire Regiment

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 during World War I

World War I

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, in which he reached the rank of Captain

Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

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, he joined the Diplomatic Service held posts in Tehran

Tehran

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, Persia (1919-22 and 1933-35), Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, Argentina

Argentina

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 (1926-8), Brussels

Brussels

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, Belgium

Belgium

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 (1929-32), Washington, United States

United States

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 (1936-9) and in the Foreign Office

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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 (1922-6 and 1932). He was Minister

Diplomatic rank

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 in Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Sweden

Sweden

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 (1940-5) during World War II

World War II

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, and Ambassador

Ambassador

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 to Spain (1945-6) and Italy (1947-53). In the last position he replaced Sir Noel Charles

Noel Charles

Sir Noel Hughes Havelock Charles, 3rd Baronet was a British diplomat.Charles was the younger son of Sir Havelock Charles, 1st Baronet, and succeeded his elder brother in the title in 1936. He served as British Ambassador to Brazil from 1941 to 1944 and as British Ambassador to Italy from 1944 to...

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His book “Life with Queen Victoria” which a record of his Mother's letters written during her service as a Maid of Honour to Queen Victoria was published in 1968.

Mallet was also occasionally a member of the Eugenics Society

Eugenics Society (UK)

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