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The Papers of Sir Victor Mallet

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MALT

Scope and Contents

Copy of an unpublished memoir, 1919-46.

Dates

  • Creation: 1955-08 - 1965-08

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers wishing to publish excerpts from the papers must obtain prior permission from the copyright holders and should seek advice from Archives Centre staff.

Biographical / Historical

Victor Mallet was born, 9 April 1893, the son of Sir Bernard Mallet and Marie Adeane. He was educated at Winchester College, 1906-11, and Balliol College, Oxford, 1911-14, BA, 1919. He married Christiana Jean Andreae, 1925, with whom he had three sons and one daughter.

He served with the Cambridgeshire Regiment in France and Ireland, 1914-18. He joined the Diplomatic Service and held various posts in Tehran, Persia (later Iran), 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 in Stockholm, Sweden, 1940-5, and Ambassador to Spain, 1945-6, and Italy, 1947-53. He retired to Wittersham, Kent, 1954. He died, 18 May 1969.

He was awarded the CMG, 1934; KCMG, 1944; and GCMG, 1952.

His publications include: "Life with Queen Victoria" (1968).

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1 file(s)

Language of Materials

English

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