Background
URWICK, Alan was born on May 2, 1930 in London. Son of the late Lyndall Fownes Urwick and Joan Saunders.
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URWICK, Alan was born on May 2, 1930 in London. Son of the late Lyndall Fownes Urwick and Joan Saunders.
Dragon School, Rugby, New College Oxford.
Joined Foreign Service 1952. Served in Embassies in Belgium 1954-1956, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics 1958-1959, Iraq 1960-1961, Jordan 1965-1967, United States of America 1967-1970, Egypt 1971-1973. Seconded to Cabinet Office as Assistant Secretary, Central Policy Review Staff 1973-1975.
Head of Near East and North Africa Department, Foreign and Commonwealth Office 1975-1976.
Minister, British Embassy in Madrid 1977-1979. Ambassador to Jordan 1979-1984, to Egypt 1984-1987.
High Commissioner in Canada 1987-1989. Serjeant at Arms, House of Commons October since 1989.
Married Marta Yolanda (nee Montagne) in 1960.