Alexander Alexander Malet

Background

The eldest son of Sir Charles Malet, 1st Baronet, born at Hartham Park, Wiltshire in June 1800, he succeeded to the baronetcy in 1815.

Education

He was educated at Winchester College and at Christ Church, Oxford (Bachelor 1822), and entered the diplomatic service in 1824 as unpaid attaché at Saint St. Petersburg.

Career

There he was an eye-witness to the Decembrist revolt of 1825. Malet later became secretary of legation at Lisbon under Lord Howden during the Miguelite war of 1832-1834. He served in a similar post at The Hague, and was then secretary of the embassy at Vienna, and British minister at Würtemberg.

He was in post from the Revolution in Baden, to the battle of Sadowa, and the expulsion of Austria from the Confederation.

On the fall of the Germanic confederation in 1866, Malet retired on a pension, and was made a Knight Commander of the Bath He died on 28 November. They had two sons, Lieutenant-colonel Sir Henry Charles Eden Malet, 3rd Baronet, and Edward Malet.

Connections

Friend:

Prince Bismarck