Anthony Williams (diplomat)

Sir Anthony (James) Williams KCMG (28 May 1923 – 7 May 1990) was a British diplomat.[1]

He attended Oundle School and Trinity College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, politics and economics. He joined the Foreign Office in 1945. He served several overseas posts including being stationed in the UN offices in Geneva and New York, and was present in Egypt during the Suez Crisis in 1956.[2]

He was Ambassador to Cambodia from 1970 to 1973, and then after a in Rome as Minister. He became Ambassador to Libya from 1977 to 1980, and Ambassador to Argentina from 1980 to 1982; his term in Argentina was disrupted by the Falklands War.[3] During his retirement, he served as President of the Society for Libyan Studies.[2]

Williams was grandson of the chancery lawyer Lord Wrenbury and nephew of Sir Denys Burton Buckley. He married on 11 April 1955 in Cairo to German noblewoman Countess Hedwig von Neipperg (born 1929), daughter of Count Erwin von Neipperg and his wife, Countess Hissa von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg. They had four children.

References
  1. "WILLIAMS, Sir Anthony (James)". Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  2. Allan, J.A. (June 1990). "Obituary — Sir Anthony Williams, KCMG — 1923–1990". Libyan Studies. 21. doi:10.1017/S0263718900002272.
  3. "British Ambassadors and High Commissioners 1880-2010" (PDF). Colin Mackie, Gulabin.com. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
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