Edward Malet

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This article is about the British diplomat. For the High Sheriff of Somerset, see Edward William St Lo Malet.

Consul-General in Egypt
In office
1879–1883
Preceded byFrank Lascelles
Succeeded bySir Evelyn Baring
Personal details
Born(1837-10-10)10 October 1837
Died29 June 1908(1908-06-29) (aged 70)
NationalityBritish
SpouseErmyntrude Sackville Russell
EducationEton College
OccupationDiplomat
Known forMalet Memorial Hall
Arms of Mallet: Azure, three escallops or
Vanity Fair
(1884)

Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, 4th Baronet

PC (10 October 1837 – 29 June 1908) was a British
diplomat.

Edward Malet came from a family of diplomats; his father was

foreign service
at the age of 17. He served as attaché to his father in
Frankfurt, then in Brussels
.

He was trained in the diplomatic service by

Richard Lyons, 1st Viscount Lyons,[1] and was a member of the Tory-sympathetic 'Lyons School' of British diplomacy.[2]

He served as Secretary of Legation at Peking (1871–1873),[3] Athens (1873–1875),[4] Rome (1875–1878),[5] and Constantinople (1878–1879).[6] Malet formed close ties with Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II ("Abdul the Damned") during 1878, the year of the Treaties of San Stefano and Berlin.

Malet was appointed Agent and Consul-General in

1882 Anglo-Egyptian War). Galbraith and al-Sayyid-Marsot describe him as having been naive, in that he hoped the British would attempt to militarily intimidate Urabi, though he never expected an actual attack or occupation by British forces[8]: 478  He later served as Minister to Belgium (1883–1884),[9] and Ambassador to the German Empire (1884–1895).[10]

In 1892 he built an immense Beaux-Arts villa "Le Chateau Malet" at Cap D’Ail, France.[11]

On 19 March 1885, Edward Malet married Lady Ermyntrude Sackville Russell, daughter of Francis Russell, 9th Duke of Bedford and Lady Elizabeth Sackville-West.

The Malet Memorial Hall, a Tudor Revival-style building which had a church on its upper floor, was founded in his memory by his widow in 1912 in Bexhill-on-Sea. It opened in October 1913.[12][13]

Malet Street, a street in the Bloomsbury district of Central London, has been named in his honour.

Bibliography

  • Malet, Egypt, 1879-1883 (London, 1909) online

References

General

  • Williams, Lynn (September 2004). "Malet, Sir Edward Baldwin, fourth baronet (1837–1908)".
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34843. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  • Goldschmidt, Arthur (2000). Biographical Dictionary of Modern Egypt. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. p. 120.
    OCLC 52401049
    .
  • Bartley, L.J. (1971). The Story of Bexhill. Bexhill: F.J.Parsons Ltd.
  • Elleray, D. Robert (2004). Sussex Places of Worship. Worthing: Optimus Books.
    ISBN 0-9533132-7-1
    .
  • OCLC 150226262
    .

Specific

  1. ^ Otte, T. G. (2011). The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy: 1865 – 1914. pp. 138–139.
  2. ^ Otte, T. G. (2011). The Foreign Office Mind: The Making of British Foreign Policy: 1865 – 1914. pp. 155–156.
  3. ^ "No. 23767". The London Gazette. 15 August 1871. p. 3593.
  4. ^ "No. 24028". The London Gazette. 24 October 1873. p. 4696.
  5. ^ "No. 24236". The London Gazette. 13 August 1875. p. 4070.
  6. ^ "No. 24578". The London Gazette. 3 May 1878. p. 2862.
  7. ^ "No. 24772". The London Gazette. 17 October 1879. p. 5977.
  8. ^ a b c Galbraith, John S. and al-Sayyid-Marsot, Afaf Lutfi. The British Occupation of Egypt: Another View. "International Journal of Middle East Studies." 9, No. 4
  9. ^ "No. 25268". The London Gazette. 11 September 1883. p. 4449.
  10. ^ "No. 25403". The London Gazette. 10 October 1884. p. 4411.
  11. ^ "Spectacular hillside Le Chateau Malet off Monaco can be yours for a bargain €48 million | The National". Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  12. ^ Bartley 1971, p. 64
  13. ^ Elleray 2004, p. 3
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Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
British Agent and Consul-General in Egypt

1879–1883 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
John Savile
British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium

1883–1884 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
British Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the German Empire

1884–1895 		Succeeded by
Baronetage of Great Britain
Preceded by Baronet
(of Wilbury)
1904–1908 		Succeeded by
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