Alan Meredith Williams

Who is Alan Meredith Williams?

Alan Meredith Williams, a British diplomat, CMG 1948, entered Her Majesty's Consular Service in 1932 after graduating from Cambridge University serving successively at San Francisco, USA; Panama; Paris, France; Hamburg, Germany; Rotterdam, Holland; Reykjavík, Iceland; Leopoldville; Vienna, Austria; 1945–1946, where he was a member of the Allied Control Commission as well; Baghdad, Iraq; New York, USA,; Tunis; & the Foreign Office.

In 1946 he married Miss Masha Poustchine, an English woman descendant from a Russian family having a son, Lawrence, and a daughter, Elizabeth.

In August 1964 he was promoted to KCMG, whilst Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Panama City, being British Ambassador to Spain, 1966-1969.