Alan Meredith Williams

Sir Alan Meredith Williams KCMG (22 August 1909 – 2 December 1972) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Panama and Spain.[1]

Career

Williams was educated at Berkhamsted School and Pembroke College, Cambridge.[1] He entered Her Majesty's Consular Service in 1932 and served successively at San Francisco, USA; Panama; Paris, France; Hamburg, Germany; Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Reykjavík, Iceland; Leopoldville; Vienna, Austria; 1945–1946, where he was a member of the Allied Control Commission as well; Baghdad, Iraq; New York, USA, (as deputy consul-general from 1950 to 1953); Tunis; the Foreign Office (as an Inspector of Foreign Office Establishments) from 1956 to 1960; and as Consul-General at New York 1960–64.[2] He was Ambassador to Panama 1964–66[3] and to Spain 1966–69.[4]

In 1946 Williams married Miss Masha Poustchine, an Englishwoman descendant from a Russian family; they had a son, Lawrence, and a daughter, Elizabeth.

Williams was appointed CMG in 1958[5] and knighted KCMG in 1963.[6]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 WILLIAMS, Sir Alan (Meredith), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  2. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 42378. p. 4204. 6 June 1961.
  3. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 43482. p. 9392. 6 November 1964.
  4. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 43977. p. 5559. 10 May 1966.
  5. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41404. p. 3515. 12 June 1958.
  6. ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 43010. p. 4797. 8 June 1963.

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