Individual Notes

Note for:   Henry Charles Eden Malet,   25 Sep 1835 - 12 Jan 1904         Index

Burial:   
     Date:   16 Jan 1904
     Place:   Newton Toney, Somersetshire, England

Individual Note:
     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
1886, November 28 Acceded to Baronetcy
1904 Died

d.s.p.m., survived by his brother, Rt. Hon. Sir Edward St. Lo Malet
1881 census staying at Bristol Hotel, Brighton, Sussex, England.
Lieut.-Colonel Grenadier Guards.

Lived at Wilbury House, Wiltshire at least from 1883.

    MALET, SIR HENRY CHARLES EDEN (1835-1904) 3RD BT, LT-COLONEL
     GRENADIER GUARDS

        corresp and papers
        Somerset Archive and Record Service
        Obridge Road
        Taunton TA2 7PU
        Reference: DD/MAL/404-480
        NRA 40471 Malet

        1855-56: letters (c80) to parents from the Crimea
        Duke University: William R Perkins Library
        Manuscript Department
        Durham NC 27706
        Reference: 18G; SS37B
        NRA 25904 Malet
        See also: Guide p354

In Somerset Archives:
1903 Accounts and vouchers for Wilbury estate, Wilts., with letters
to Sir Henry Malet from Rawlence and Sqaurey, Salisbury.
(27 items)

139 1892 Papers relating to lawsuit between Lady Boscawen and Sir
Henry Malet concerning damage to her house in Park Lane
during his tenancy. (c. 53 items)



Individual Notes

Note for:   Laura Jane Campbell Hamilton,   7 Feb 1850 - 9 May 1922         Index

Individual Note:
     1881 census staying at Bristol Hotel, Brighton, Sussex, England.



Individual Notes

Note for:   Edward Baldwin Malet,   10 Oct 1837 - 29 Jun 1908         Index

Burial:   
     Place:   Rome, Italy

Individual Note:
     Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India, Sir Edward Baldwin Malet, her Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the Court of His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia ;
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
1904, 16 January Added to Baronetcy after death of brother.
1908, June Died at the Chorleywood home of his sister-in-law, Lady Ella Russell

suffered from asthma
survived by his cousin, Sir Edward St. Lo Malet

    MALET, SIR EDWARD BALDWIN (1837-1908) 4TH BT, DIPLOMAT

        corresp and papers
        Somerset Archive and Record Service
        Obridge Road
        Taunton TA2 7PU
        Reference: DD/MAL/481-570
        NRA 40471 Malet

        c1865-1908: corresp and papers
        Duke University: William R Perkins Library
        Manuscript Department
        Durham NC 27706
        Reference: 18G; SS37B
        NRA 25904 Malet
        See also: Guide 1980, p354

        1884-95: corresp
        Public Record Office
        Ruskin Avenue
        Kew
        Richmond TW9 4DU
        Reference: FO343
        NRA 23621 Malet
        See also: HMC Private papers of British diplomats
        1782-1900, 1985

        1880-85: corresp with 2nd Earl Granville
        Public Record Office
        Reference: PRO30/29
        NRA 8654 Leveson-Gower

        letters to Lord Hardinge
        Cambridge University Library, Department of
        Manuscripts and University Archives
        West Road
        Cambridge CB3 9DR
        Reference: Hardinge NRA 3853 Hardinge

        1894-95: corresp with Lord Kimberley
        Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special
        Collections and Western Manuscripts
        Broad Street
        Oxford OX1 3BG
        Reference: MSS Eng a 2013-14, b 2047-49, c 3933-4514, d
        2439-92, e 2790-97
        NRA 1274 Wodehouse

        1878-81: letters to Sir Austen Layard
        British Library, Manuscript Collections
        96 Euston Road
        London NW1 2DB
        Reference: Add MSS 39023-35 passim

Author of "Shifting Scenes".

In Somerset archives:
1903-1907 Bundle of vouchers, letters and papers relating to Wilbury,
Wilts including request to hunt for truffles, purchase of land,
rentals, inventory of old china in the house, letting of shooting,
prosecution of gypsies for trespass, and produce of kitchen
garden. (c. 80 items)

Folder of papers relating to Chateau Malet, including work in
the garden 1905, and to Wrestwood, Bexhill including
correspondence with Geo. Herbert Grey architect, file of
receipts for building the house, 1897-1900, {cost £12,470},
letter concerning proposed alterations 1903 and illustrated
price lists for terracotta pots, 1902. (33 items)
134 1896-1898 Bundle of letters to Sir Edward Malet (d. 1908) concerning his
estate at Wrestwood, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, mainly from
Earl De la Warr's Bexhill Estate office one with a plan of
proposed roads at Bexhill. (34 letters)
135 1896-1921 Folder of papers relating to Wrestwood including accounts,
estimates from Heals for bedroom furniture, letter from
Bertram's for fabrics, bills for Belfast linen, letters concerning
proposed improvements, photographs and service card of the
chapel of the Good Shepherd and the Malet Hall,
Bexhill-on-Sea, envelope of negatives of the house,
correspondence with the Bexhill Estate office, lists of work
done in the garden 1908 and letters from the gardener, one
annotated by Sir Edward (d. 1990) with accounts of wages
1920-1. (103 items)
136 1909-1918,
1939-1946 Folder of papers relating to Wrestwood including list of birds
seen, 1900-6, two descriptions of the gardens,
correspondence concerning exchange of land with the Bexhill
water and gas company, 1909-18, correspondence
concerning maintenance, occupation by school, bombing,
military requisition, 1939-46
1900. (232 items)
137 1927-1964 Folder of items relating to Wrestwood including photograph of
Sir Edward Malet (d. 1908) in the gardens and letters
concerning death of the former gardener Frank Sims, 1964,
plan of proposed smoking room, sale particular of the estate
1927 with plans and photographs, aerial photograph of the
house as Lindores School 1933, brochure of Lindores School
with bundle of illustrations of the interior and grounds
including the Japanese garden, cuttings relating to
development of the estate, c. 1961. (24 items)
138 1987 Correspondence concerning sale of Wrestwood,
Bexhill-on-Sea and reminiscences of Wrestwood by the son
of the gardener Frank Sims. (4 items)

Letters from Lady Ermyntrude to Edward, telegram of
imminent birth of his child, letter expressing Queen Victoria's
concern for Lady Ermyntrude [the child did not survive]. (7
items)