{{Short description|British diplomat and author}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}} {{Use British English|date=February 2014}} {{For|Hong Kong controversy involving ''Financial Times'' journalist|Victor Mallet ban controversy}} [[File:Victor Mallet and Christian Günther, 12 May 1945.jpg|thumb|Victor Mallet (left) together with Swedish Foreign Minister Christian Günther, 12 May 1945.]] '''Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|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<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37278 |page=4707 |date=2 May 1919}}</ref> 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<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34831 |page=2240 |date=16 April 1940}}</ref> and Ambassador to Spain 1945–46<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=37278 |page=4707 |date=21 September 1945}}</ref> and to Italy 1947–53.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38192 |supp=y |page=742 |date=30 January 1948}}</ref>
==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 Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1934 New Year Honours<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34010 |supp=y |page=6 |date=1 January 1934}}</ref> and a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1939.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=34641 |supp=y |page=4435 |date=30 June 1939}}</ref> He was promoted to Knight Commander (KCMG) in the 1944 New Year Honours<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=36309 |supp=y |page=6 |date=1 January 1944}}</ref> and again to Knight Grand Cross (GCMG) in the 1952 Birthday Honours.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=39555 |supp=y |page=3011 |date=5 June 1952}}</ref>
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==References== *[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U50201 MALLET, Sir Victor Alexander Louis], ''Who Was Who'', A & C Black, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 *[https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1702 The Papers of Sir Victor Mallet], Churchill Archives Centre, University of Cambridge *[http://find.galegroup.com/ttda/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=TTDA&tabID=T003&docPage=article&searchType=BasicSearchForm&docId=CS170225843&type=multipage&contentSet=LTO&version=1.0 Sir Victor Mallet] (obituary), ''The Times'', London, 19 May 1969, page 10 {{reflist|30em}}
==External links== *{{NPG name|name=Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet}} *{{UK National Archives ID|name=Mallet, Sir Victor Alexander Louis (1893-1969) Knight Diplomat}}
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