Beckett, Samuel Joshua (fl.1892)
- Person
- fl.1892
Joined teaching staff of the Photographic Department in 1893
Beckett, Samuel Joshua (fl.1892)
Walter Nurnberg practised photography in London from 1934, becoming a naturalised British citizen in 1947. He was active as a freelance photographer specialising in industrial photography from 1945 to the 1970s and his distinctive style led him to become known as the founding father of modern British industrial photography.
He lectured at Polytechnic of Central London.
Worsnop, Dr BL (fl.1932-1958), Headmaster of Polytechnic Secondary School
Dr Worsnop was appointed as Head of the Department of Mathematics and Physics in 1932 and he was Headmaster of the Polytechnic Secondary School from 1937-1958.
Dr Worsnop was educated at King's College, London, where he obtained his B.Sc. Degree with First Class Honours in Physics in 1913 and was awarded the Jelf Medal in Science for the best student of the year. He then attended the Department of Education of the College for a year's training in teaching. In 1914 he obtained the Teachers' Diploma, the Langton Research Scholarship, and was elected an Associate of King's College.
During the War, Dr Worsnop was in charge of a Sound Ranging Section R.E . in France, and after the War he founded the survey section of the University of London O .T .C., which he commanded until 1935.
In 1919, he was appointed as a lecturer in Physics a t King's College and later as senior lecturer, Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Science, and special lecturer in radiology. For his research work on X-rays he was awarded the PhD Degree in 1927. He has been for many years a member of the Council of the Institute of Physics.
Dr Worsnop wrote and edited a number of important books on Physics, including the well-known ' ' Advanced Practical Physics for Students, " by Worsnop and Flint, and a series of Physical Monographs published by Methuen.
[Taken from the Polytechnic Magazine, September 1937]
Hoare, Malcolm Vincent (1912-1991), Cinematography teacher
Hibbert, Lawrence J (fl.1913-1951), Head of the School of Photography
Hibbert, Walter (1852-1935), Head of the School of Electrical Engineering
Bayliss, Arthur (fl.1929), Head of School of Music
Head of the Polytechnic's School of Music. Specialised in teaching piano.
In August 1929 the Governors decided to discontinue the school and Mr Bayliss took over the School as a private venture, called the Regent College of Music.
Geoffrey Davies was a Principal Lecturer in Journalism and Joint International Director for the School of Media, Arts and Design. He joined the University of Westminster on staff teaching journalism and television in 2002.
After Oxford University he trained with the Thomson Organisation in Newcastle on The Journal daily newspaper and then moved to broadcast journalism with Thames News, working as producer. After a brief spell in children’s television he was the original producer of Frost on Sunday at TV-am, a format that ran on several channels for the next 21 years. Moving to cable television he worked for Music Box (a British precursor of MTV), becoming Head of Production for the company, later working at BSB directing live studio for business television.
In his freelance career Geoffrey has worked at ITN (now ITV News) as a producer, as a business manager in a broadcast television services company, made corporate videos, conducted media training and marketed satellite delivery services to business, as well as writing about the industry and technology for national and trade press. Immediately before working at Westminster as a visiting lecturer, he was at the BBC at the start of what became BBC Three.
Formerly an External Examiner for media courses at Singapore Polytechnic, he has been a judge for the RTS News Awards and has chaired the Multimedia panel. He has recently re-joined the committee of The Media Society, on which he sat for several years from 2008.
Between 2008 and 2015, he was the Head of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, until the School was restructured. Between September 2015 and December 2016 he spent a semester teaching in each of Beijing and Hong Kong. In May 2017 he was elected by colleagues as the Teaching Staff Representative on the University Court of Governors. Davies left the University in January 2021 to take up a teaching post in China.
Pepper, John Henry (1821-1900), scientist and inventor
Harker, Margaret (1920-2013), Head of School of Photography
Harker first attended Regent Street Polytechnic as a student in 1939.
During the Second World War she worked for the National Buildings Record, photographing bomb damage. She then joined the staff of the Polytechnic for the academic year 1943/44 as a lecturer in the School of Photography.
She became Head of School of Photography in September 1959, and became Dean of the Faculty of Communications when this was formed in 1974 (merging the Schools of Photography and Communication Studies and the Centre for Extra Mural Studies).
Harker developed the first FT 3-year Diploma in Photography in 1960 and established the first BSc Hons course in Photography in the UK at the Polytechnic in 1966 (the first graduates completed in the summer of 1969).
Harker retired at the end of the academic year in 1980 and received an Honorary Doctorate from PCL in October 1987.
Harker was a renowned photographer in her own right as well as a published scholar on the history of photography. She was the first female President of the Royal Photographic Society (1958-1960) and was formerly a Trustee of the Photographer’s Gallery and of the National Media Museum.