 Malcolm Munthe

Major Malcolm Munthe MC (30 January 1910 – 24 November 1995) was a British soldier, writer, and curator, and son of the Swedish doctor and writer Axel Munthe and his second wife Hilda Pennington-Mellor.Brought up between the Swedish court, Italy, and Britain, where his mother owned two large houses, Hellens in Herefordshire and Southside House in Wimbledon, Malcolm Munthe became a British citizen at the outbreak of World War II in order to fight, since Sweden would be neutral throughout the war.