- Victor Mallet
Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet GCMG (
April 9 ,1893 –May 18 ,1969 ) was a British diplomat and author.The son of Sir
Bernard Mallet and Marie Adeane, he was educated atWinchester College andBalliol College , Oxford. He married Christiana Jean Andreae in 1925; they had three sons and a daughter.After serving in France and
Ireland with theCambridgeshire Regiment duringWorld War I , in which he reached the rank ofCaptain , he joined the Diplomatic Service held posts inTehran ,Persia (1919-22 and 1933-5),Buenos Aires ,Argentina (1926-8),Brussels ,Belgium (1929-32), Washington,United States (1936-9) and in the Foreign Office (1922-6 and 1932). He was Minister inStockholm ,Sweden (1940-5) duringWorld War II , andAmbassador to Spain (1945-6) and Italy (1947-53).His book “Life with
Queen Victoria ” was published in 1968. [ [http://131.111.161.94/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FMALT;sib0=251 Janus: The Papers of Sir Victor Mallet ] ]Mallet was also occasionally a member of the Eugenics Society. [ [http://www.eugenics-watch.com/briteugen/eug_n.html British Eugenics Society - N ] ]
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