Lieutenant-Colonel Melchior Guy Dickens (bapt. 18 February 1696 – 1775) was a British diplomat, minister to Prussia and Sweden and ambassador to Russia.[1]
From 1724 to 1730 he was Secretary at the British embassy to Prussia at Berlin;[2] officially appointed Secretary to the Prussian Court in 1730,[3] he seems to have acted as chargé d'affaires there until 1740.[2] In August 1732 he was briefly at Hanover.[4] In 1740 he was promoted to be minister. He left Prussia in May 1741.[2] In June 1742 he arrived in Stockholm as Minister to the Swedish Court.[5] In 1749 he became ambassador to Russia.[6]
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^Gale (1932), "Colonel Melchior Guy Dickens", Notes and Queries, 162: 75–77, doi:10.1093/nq/CLXII.jan30.75
^ abcRagnhild Marie Hatton et al., eds., Royal and republican sovereignty in early modern Europe, p. 505
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