Lieutenant-Colonel Melchior Guy Dickens (''bapt.'' 18 February 1696 – 1775) was a British diplomat, minister to Prussia and Sweden and ambassador to Russia. Melchior Guy Dickens was educated at

Westminster School (God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Hea ...

. From 1724 to 1730 he was Secretary at the British embassy to

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an ...

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; officially appointed Secretary to the

Prussian Court The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. R ...

in 1730, he seems to have acted as '' chargé d'affaires'' there until 1740. In August 1732 he was briefly at Hanover. In 1740 he was promoted to be minister. He left Prussia in May 1741.Ragnhild Marie Hatton et al., eds., ''Royal and republican sovereignty in early modern Europe'', p. 505 In June 1742 he arrived in Stockholm as Minister to the Swedish Court. In 1749 he became ambassador to Russia.''London Gazette'', 8867, 15 July 1749; 8924, 30 January 1749

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* 1690s births 1775 deaths Ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia Ambassadors of Great Britain to Sweden {{UK-diplomat-stub