Individual Notes

Note for: George Grenville Malet, 7 Mar 1805 - 9 Dec 1856 Index

Individual Note:
     Nami, Muhammad Ma'sum.
                    A History of Sind. (translated by G. G. Malet).
                    Microfilm (positive). Bombay, 1855. India Office Library Cat. of
                    Persian Books, pp. 197 and 343.

Lt.-Col. commanding 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry
killed in action at the head of his regiment at Bushire, Persian War
Captain in the Military Service of the Honorable East India

Individual Notes

Note for: Arthur Rivers Malet, 7 Nov 1806 - 13 Sep 1888 Index

Christening:
     Date:   25 Dec 1806
     Place:   Newton Tony, Wiltshire, England

Death Note: Source:    Age 81

Individual Note:
     Member of Council of Bombay
1881 census, visiting at Edward P. Powney's Hanover Square London home.

"Lived at Pyrland Hall, Taunton, afterwards a preparatory school to Kings College, Taunton. He later moved to Ashcott on the Poldens. He served in the Bombay Council, raised the defences of Bombay during the Indian Mutiny, was charged with the intelligence services of the Presidency, and translated the Old Testament into English verse, publishing five works." (Hamilton).

Has a point (Arthur's Point" named after him in the Mahabaleshwar area in the Western Ghatrs of Maharashtra, India.

Individual Notes

Note for: Octavius Warre Malet, 17 May 1811 - 11 Dec 1891 Index

Individual Note:
"Educated at Winchester, from which he was expelled, at which his older brother Sir Alexander publicly complained, but his case was probably weakened in that he himself had led a famous Winchester rebellion ('Barring Out') in 1818, in which, among other things, he had nailed up the headmaster's study door. Octavius trained at Hailebury for the East India Company, where he won the prize in law, was rusticated for laziness, gambling, drinking, and badger-baiting, but was eventually granted his writership. As the voyage to India took some four months in those days, Octavius, thoroughly bored, volunteered to serve as one of the crew,aided by his young friend Hotham, and they soon learned the ropes, and were unfurling topsails in the heaviest storms. He was stationed at Midnapoor in Bengal, then Cuttack, promoted to be the Collector at Ponee, (where he worked on land reform), and was then sent back once again to Midnapoor. His endeavors at Midnapoor included the creation of an arificial lake, he also planted avenues of mangoes for twenty miles along the pilgrim road toward Juggernath at his own expense to provide shade, and encouraged wealthy Indians to follow his example on other routes. Later, he became Collector and Magistrate at Tipperah, and was civil and sessions judge for Beerbohm at the time of the Indian Mutiny (1857). He retired from India in 1864 to live at Haygrass House near Taunton. He is responsible for "A Sketch of the Malet Family", published by the Orissa Mission Press, India (1840). After his return from India, Octavius joined the Somerset Archaelogical and Natural History Society, being elected its honorary secretary in 1871. He developed a special interest in the restoration of Taunton Castle, of which his long-dead relative Lucy, daughter of Sir William Malet of Elworthy (d. ca. 1235) had once been chatelaine. The castle, which had fallen into a rather ruinous state, came up for sale. Octavius was the force behind the fund-raising, which led to the purchase of the castle in 1874. He then tackled the even more onerous task of restoration. Somerset County Council took up a lease of the castle in 1958. Octavius had three children, the eldest of whom, Francis Warre Malet, emigrated to Argentina and then Australia, and disappeared.
1875 Directory of Pitminster, Somerset: Octavius W. Malet, Haygrass house.
1881 census - living at 14 Manson Place, London, Middlesex, England, Retired Judge, Indian Civil Service.

Individual Notes

Note for: Alexander Malet, 23 Jul 1800 - 28 Nov 1886 Index

Burial:
     Date:   2 Dec 1886
     Place:   Newton Toney, Wiltshire, England

Individual Note:
     2nd Baronet. 1815 succeeded to Baronetcy.
1822, May 25, B.A. Oxford, Christ Church.
1824 entered diplomacy as attache at St. Petersburg.
1832-34 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

1881 census, living at 19 Queensbury Place, Kensington, London, Middlesex, England, listed as "Bart KCB Foreign Ministry"
And of Wilbury House, Wiltshire.

In Somerset archives:

103 1866-1883 Sir Alexander Malet's accounts of the Wilbury estate, Wilts,
with vouchers,
1866-81.
     Bundle of vouchers relating to household expenses
Sir Alexander and Lady Marianne's house 19, Queensberry
Place, Kensington, 1880-3. (c. 300 items)

130/1 1883 Bill to construct a railway {Bristol and London and SW
Junction Rwy} from Bristol to the London--Exeter railway.
Petition of Sir Alexander Malet against the above bill in draft
and in print including sealed packet of printed copies, with
correspondence. The proposed line affected his estate at
Wilbury, Wilts.
Notices to Sir Alexander. by the Railway Co.
Drafts of agreement between Sir Alexander Malet and the
Railway Co.
Maps of proposed line at Newton Tony, Wilts. (35 docs)
130/2 1883 Agreement between Sir Alexander Malet and the Bristol and
London and SW Junction Rwy with proposed amendments to
the Bill and correspondence concerning land at Newton Tony,
Wilts. (8 items)