Alan Meredith Williams
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Sir Alan Meredith Williams KCMG (22 August 1909 – 2 December 1972) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Panama and Spain.[1]
Career[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ a b WILLIAMS, Sir Alan (Meredith), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
- ^ "No. 42378". The London Gazette. 6 June 1961. p. 4204.
- ^ "No. 43482". The London Gazette. 6 November 1964. p. 9392.
- ^ "No. 43977". The London Gazette. 10 May 1966. p. 5559.
- ^ "No. 41404". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 1958. p. 3515.
- ^ "No. 43010". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 1963. p. 4797.
External links[edit]
- New Yorker interview, 29 October 1960, page 35, by journalist Geoffrey T. Hellman