Charles Mallet

Sir Charles Edward Mallet (2 December 1862 – 21 November 1947), was a British historian and Liberal politician.

[2] He first stood for parliament at the 1900 General Election when he was the unsuccessful Liberal candidate for the Conservative seat of Salford West.

[4] In March 1910 Prime Minister H. H. Asquith appointed him Financial Secretary to the War Office, a position he held until he was defeated in the December general election of the same year.

He sought to make a return to parliament standing as Liberal candidate for South Aberdeen, in 1922 without success.

He had published two works on Liberal politicians; Mr Lloyd George, a Study (1930) and Herbert Gladstone, a Memoir (1932).