Missing Diplomat's Wife Leaves England - For Good. Mrs. Melinda Maclean, wife of the British diplomat who disappeared in 1951, (right), walking with one of her chrildren to the plane at Northolt Airport when she and her family left England to live abroad. She is taking the children to Paris en route to Switzerland. (Mrs. Maclean's husband, Donald, and Guy Burgess, another British Foreign Office man, have not been traced since they disappeared last year). London, England. 20 July 1952.