Victor Mallet
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Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet CMG KCMG 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 at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He married Christiana Jean Andreae in 1925; they had three sons and a daughter.
After serving in France and Ireland during World War I he joined the Diplomatic Service held posts in Tehran, 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 in Stockholm, Sweden (1940-5) during World War II, and Ambassador to Spain (1945-6) and Italy (1947-53).
His book “Life with Queen Victoria” was published in 1968.[1]
Mallet was also occasionally a member of the Eugenics Society.[2]
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- ^ http://131.111.161.94/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FMALT;sib0=251
- ^ http://www.eugenics-watch.com/briteugen/eug_n.html
