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 June 1742 he arrived in Stockholm as Minister to the Swedish Court.
[6] Guy Dickens was the father of Gustavus Guydickens, who also joined the British Army, becoming a major-general before resigning in the midst of a homosexuality scandal in 1793.