Representative Deputy Lieutenant for the London Borough of Redbridge

Lieutenant Colonel David Utting DL VR

Representative Deputy Lieutenant for Redbridge

Appointed Rep DL: June 2025

David Utting is currently employed as the Clerk to the Gold and Silver Wyre Drawers, a City Livery Company. Before that he spent six years as the Head of Engagement for the Army in London working on the relationship between the Army and the population of London, including Borough Councils, employers and schools.

He was commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1983, and served in a number of ships. During this time he deployed on the ARMILLA Patrol in the Gulf. When he left the Royal Navy in 1990 he joined Royal Mail, where he worked until 2004 in a wide variety of roles, latterly as the Head of Commercial Management for the Engineering Department. He then worked as a Contracts Manger at the University of Bristol before taking up the role of the Director of Service Relationships for Jisc, an IT organisation supporting Higher Education, in July 2007. In 2013 he went back in to full time military service initially in Afghanistan and latterly in London.

In 1991 he joined the Royal Wessex Yeomanry, an Army Reserve unit, and over the next ten years served in a number of posts. He has deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan, and has been an instructor at Staff College, commanded a University Officer Training Corps and done Army Officer Selection.

He was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 2006, and has an LLM from the University of London.  David was appointed RDL to Redbridge in June 2025.

Further information can be found at https://www.redbridge.gov.uk