George Mallaby (public servant)

Sir Howard George Charles Mallaby KCMG OBE (17 February 1902 – 18 December 1978), was an English schoolmaster and public servant.

[1] Born in 1902 at Worthing, Mallaby was the youngest child of actor and acting company manager William Calthorpe Mallaby (né William Calthorpe Deeley- his father had insisted on a stage name; d. 1912)[2] and his wife Katharine Mary Frances Miller.

The children's maternal grandparents were George Miller CB (born 1833), Assistant Secretary in the Education Department and a member of the Athenaeum Club, and his wife Mary Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev.

At St Edward's one of the boys he taught was Robert Gittings, later a poet and biographer, who after Mallaby's death wrote an article on him for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

In this role he attended conferences of the Great Powers at Cairo (November, 1943), Quebec (September, 1944), and Potsdam (July to August, 1945).

[1] Mallaby was commissioned onto the British Army's general staff list as a Second Lieutenant on 6 December 1940,[10] promoted Captain and Major in 1941, Lieutenant-Colonel in 1943, and Colonel in 1945.

[1] In 1932, Mallaby edited a selection of William Wordsworth's poems for the Cambridge University Press, in which he included two thousand lines of The Prelude.

[1] His last publication was a booklet, Local Government Councillors: their Motives and Manners (1976), in which he quoted Charles Lamb and Samuel Johnson.