Sir Alan Bedford Urwick KCVO CMG KStJ (2 May 1930 – 8 December 2016[1]) was a British diplomat, who served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1989 to 1995.
[2][3] He was the younger of the two children, of Lt. Col. Lyndall Fownes Urwick OBE MC and Joan Wilhelmina Saunders (née Bedford).
[1] Lyndall F. Urwick was one of the British pioneers of scientific management prior to the Second World War.
[2] Urwick joined the British diplomatic service in 1952 and undertook tours of duty in Western Europe, the Middle East, Moscow, and Washington, D.C.[6] He served as the United Kingdom's ambassador to Jordan (1979–1984) and to Egypt (1985–1987),[7] and was the British High Commissioner in Canada (1987–1989).
[1] He arranged for a memorial service to be held at St. Paul's Cathedral following the death of King Hussein of Jordan in 1999.