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]