Michael S. Williams
Sir Michael Sanigear Williams, KCMG (17 August 1911 – 25 February 1984) was a British diplomat.
Michael Williams was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Office in 1935 and served in the British embassies at Madrid, Rome, and Rio de Janeiro besides posts in London.
Williams was Minister at Bonn 1956–60; Minister to Guatemala 1960–62 and Ambassador to Guatemala 1962–63; Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1963–65; and finally Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Holy See 1965–70.
Williams was appointed CMG in 1954 and knighted KCMG in 1968.
See also[]
- British Ambassadors to the Holy See.
References[]
WILLIAMS, Sir Michael (Sanigear), Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, accessed 18 Feb 2012
- 1911 births
- 1984 deaths
- People educated at Rugby School
- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Guatemala
- Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the Holy See