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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 WILLIAMS, Sir Alan (Meredith), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 42378. p. 4204. 6 June 1961.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 43482. p. 9392. 6 November 1964.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 43977. p. 5559. 10 May 1966.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41404. p. 3515. 12 June 1958.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 43010. p. 4797. 8 June 1963.
External links
- New Yorker interview, 29 October 1960, page 35, by journalist Geoffrey T. Hellman
- Use dmy dates from February 2015
- Use British English from February 2015
- 1909 births
- 1972 deaths
- People educated at Berkhamsted School
- Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- British diplomats
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Spain
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Panama
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
