Louis Mallet

Sir Louis Mallet CB PC (14 March 1823 – 16 February 1890) was a British civil servant who was an advocate of free trade and served on the Council of India.

[1] In 1874 he was appointed Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India, a position left vacant by the death of his first cousin Herman Merivale.

Mallet served on a royal commission on the laws relating to copyright in 1876,[2] and was a commissioner for the British representation at the Paris exhibition of 1878.

[3] In the same year he and Lord Reay represented India at a International Monetary Conference in Paris, convened as a result of a fall in the price of silver relative to gold.

Mallet retired in 1883 but was recalled in 1887 to serve for a short period on a Royal Commission on Precious Metals.