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Williams, Lady Masha, (1914-1994), author and co-founder of the Diplomatic Wives Association

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Alternative name(s):
  • Masha Pouschine (Maiden Name)
Surname: Williams
Pretitle: Lady
Forenames: Masha
Gender: Female
Date: 1914-1994
History: Born on 23 May, 1914, she and her family fled Russia to England after the October Revolution in 1917. Her father and later three of her four siblings moved to the United States of America. Masha remained with her mother in England. She attended the Convent of St Helen and St Katharine, Wantage, where she won a scholarship in modern languages to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. After teaching for awhile, she took up a position monitoring broadcasts from the Soviet Union for Reuters. Her interpreting skills took her to Vienna, where she met and married Sir Alan Meredith Williams (1909-1972). They had two children, Lawrence and Elizabeth. In the 1950s, she co-founded the "Diplomatic Wives Association" (now the "Diplomatic Service Families Association"). She wrote four books "White among the Reds (1980)", "The Consul's Memsahib (1985)", "Exiled to America (1987)" and "In the Bey's Palace (1990)" about her life as a Diplomat's wife after the death of her husband. She died on 8 November, 1994. [Source: The Times and Wikipedia]
Places:
  • Panama
  • Russia
  • Tunisia
  • Baghdad, Iraq
  • Madrid, Spain
  • New York, New York
  • Oxford, Oxfordshire
  • Vienna, Austria
  • Wantage, Berkshire
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P287722
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Number Description Held by Reference Further information
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personal papers and corresp
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections