Sir Alan Meredith Williams (22 August 1909 – 2 December 1972) was a British diplomat who was ambassador to Panama and Spain.WILLIAMS, Sir Alan (Meredith)
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Career

Williams was educated at

Berkhamsted School Berkhamsted School is an independent day school in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England. The present school was formed in 1997 by the amalgamation of the original Berkhamsted School, founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, ...

and

Pembroke College, Cambridge Pembroke College (officially "The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College or Hall of Valence-Mary") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college is the third-oldest college of the university and has over 700 ...

. He entered Her Majesty's Consular Service in 1932 and served successively at

San Francisco San Francisco (; Spanish language, Spanish for "Francis of Assisi, Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the List of Ca ...

, USA;

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cos ...

; Paris, France;

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, Germany;

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

, the Netherlands;

Reykjavík Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a po ...

, Iceland; Leopoldville;

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, Austria; 1945–1946, where he was a member of the

Allied Control Commission Following the termination of hostilities in World War II, the Allies were in control of the defeated Axis countries. Anticipating the defeat of Germany and Japan, they had already set up the European Advisory Commission and a proposed Far Eastern ...

as well;

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

, Iraq; New York, USA, (as deputy consul-general from 1950 to 1953);

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; the Foreign Office (as an Inspector of Foreign Office Establishments) from 1956 to 1960; and as

Consul-General A consul is an official representative of the government of one state in the territory of another, normally acting to assist and protect the citizens of the consul's own country, as well as to facilitate trade and friendship between the people ...

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1960–64. He was

Ambassador An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sov ...

1964–66 and to

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

1966–69. 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 and knighted KCMG in 1963.

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External links

''New Yorker'' interview
29 October 1960, page 35, by journalist

Geoffrey T. Hellman Geoffrey Theodore Hellman (February 13, 1907 – September 26, 1977) was an American journalist and staff writer for ''The New Yorker.'' Early life Hellman was the son of writer and rare-books dealer, George S. Hellman. Born in New York C ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams, Alan Meredith 1909 births 1972 deaths People educated at Berkhamsted School Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge 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