Malet Family

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1752, Dec. 30 Baptised 1791, Feb. 24 Was created a baronet 1799, Sept. 23 Married Susanna Wales 1815, Dec. 15 Died and was succeeded by son Alexander Malet 1800, July 23 Born 1834, Dec. 22 Married Marian Dora Spalding (d. 1891, Jan. 2) 1886, Nov. 28 Died and was succeeded by son Henry Charles Eden Malet 1835, Sept. 25 Born 1873, Feb. 19 Married Laura Jane Hamilton (d. 1922, May 9) 1904, Jan 12 Died and was succeeded by brother Edward Baldwin Malet 1837, Oct. 10 Born 1885, Mar. 19 Married Lady Ermyntrude Sackville Russell (d. 1927, Mar. 22) 1908, June 29 Died and was succeeded by cousin Edward St. Lo Malet 1753? Born 1785 1791 Resident minister at Poona, India 1791 Was created a baronet for his services at Poona, India 1791 1798 Acting Governor of Bombay 1798 Retired and returned to England 1815 Died 1800, June Born at Hartham Park, Wiltshire 1815 Succeeded to baronetcy 1822 BA, Christ Church, Oxford 1824 Entered diplomatic service as attaché at St. Petersburg 1832 1834 Secretary of Legation at Lisbon under Lord Howden 1834 Married Marian Dora Spalding 1836 1843 Secretary of the Embassy at the Hague 1849 Became Minister Plenipotentiary to the Germanic confederation at Frankfurt 1860 Author of The Conquest of England 1866 Retired 1870 Author of The Overthrow of the German Confederation by Prussia in 1866 1886, Nov. 28 Died in London Unknown Born to Thomas Spalding and Mary Anne Eden 1834, Dec. 22 Married Sir Alexander Malet 1835 Gave birth to Sir Henry Charles Eden Malet, 3rd Baronet 1836 Anonymously published Violet, or The Danseuse: A Portraiture of Human Passions and Character, a satirical novel ca. 1836 Became friends with Queen Sophia of Holland, with whom she corresponded until the Queen's death in 1877 1837, Oct. 10 Gave birth to Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, 4th Baronet 1891, Jan. 2 Died 1835 Born to Sir Alexander Malet and Marian Dora (Spalding) Malet 1854 Commissioned in the Grenadier Guards 1854 1856 Served in the Crimean War 1862 Was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel 1870 Retired 1904 Died 1837, Oct. 10 Born to Marian and Alexander Malet 1854 Appointed attaché at Frankfurt at age seventeen 1860 Appointed to the British Legation at Parana in the Argentine 1861 Transferred to Brazil 1862 Changed positions with William Brodie, attaché at Washington, D.C. 1864 Returned to England as Head of Chancery 1865 Transferred to Constantinople 1867 Transferred to Paris 1871 Promoted to Secretary of Legation at Peking 1873 Accepted appointment as Secretary of the Athens Legation and transferred to Greece 1875 Accepted appointment as Secretary of the Rome Legation and moved to Italy 1876 Promoted to Secretary of Embassy 1878 Appointed to Constantinople 1879 Appointed Agent and Consul General in Egypt and transferred to Alexandria 1883 Promoted to Minister at Brussels and transferred to Belgium 1884 Appointed to Berlin as ambassador 1885 Married Ermyntrude Hastings 1895 Retired and returned to England 1901 Published Shifting Scenes 1908, June Died at the Chorleywood home of his sister-in-law, Lady Ella Russell

From the guide to the Malet Family Papers, 1808-1937, (Duke University. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

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