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, U.S.A, Panama

Panama

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, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

, France

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, Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

, Holland, Reykjavik

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, Iceland

Iceland

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, Leopoldville

Leopoldville

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, Vienna

Vienna

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, Austria

Austria

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, 1945–1946, where he was a member of the Allied Control Commission as well, Baghdad

Baghdad

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, Irak, New York

New York

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, U.S.A., (as deputy consul-general from 1950 to 1953), Tunis

Tunis

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, & the Foreign Office (as an Inspector of Foreign Office Establishments since 1956 till 1960 where he was at the British Consulate of New York).

In 1946 he married Miss Masha Poustchine, an English woman descendant from a Russian

Russians

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 family having a son, Lawrence, and a daughter, Elizabeth.

In August 1964 he was promoted to KCMG, whilst Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Panama

Panama

Panama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...

City, being British Ambassador to Spain, 1966 - 1969.