[Edward Baldwin]. British diplomatist, born in The Hague, on the 10th of October 1837. He was educated at Eton, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and entered the diplomatic service in 1854. During the Commune he was chargé des archives, was made Commander of the Bath, July 10, 1871, and promoted to be secretary of legation at Pekin in August of the same year. From 1873 to 1875 he was acting chargé d’affaires at Athens, and then proceeded to Rome as secretary of embassy. On April 20, 1878, he was appointed minister plenipotentiary at Constantinople, in the absence of the ambassador. The following year he went to Egypt as agent-consul-general, and a minister plenipotentiary in the diplomatic service; was made Knight Commander of the Bath in 1881, and received the medal and Khedive’s star for his services in Egypt in 1882. In August 1883 he was promoted to be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Brussels, and ambassador at Berlin, September 20, 1884. Sir Edward Malet was sworn a Privy Councillor in March 1885, and in June of the same year was decorated with the Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George.
