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Date transcribed2011-08-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Mallet    
First Name(s)  Louis    
Titles, Honours, etc.  Sir    
Birth Year  1823    
Death Year  1890    
Entry  Son of John Lewis Mallet : born March 14, 1823 : became a clerk in the Audit Office in 1839 : Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade, 1848-52 : and 1855-7: Assistant Commissioner for carrying out commercial treaties with several nations, 1860-5, and with Austria, 1865-7 : C.B., 1866: K.C.B., 1868: Member of the Council of India, 1872-4 : Permanent Under Secretary of State for India, 1874- 83 : visited India, 1875-6 : Privy Councillor, 1883 : represented the India Office at the Monetary Conference at Paris : was a Member of the Royal Commission on Gold and Silver, and on several other Royal Commissions : was a great authority on commercial policy, and an official exponent of free trade views : advocated bimetallism : his writings published in Free Exchange, 1891 : died Feb. 16, 1890.     
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