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Morley College

Morley College is a specialist adult education and further education college in London, England. The college has three main campuses, one in Waterloo on the South Bank, and two in West London namely in North Kensington and in Chelsea, the latter two joining following a merger with Kensington and Chelsea College in 2020. There are also smaller centres part of the college elsewhere. Morley College is also a registered charity under English law.[2] It was originally founded in the 1880s and has a student population of 11,000 adult students (as at 2019).[3] It offers courses in a wide variety of fields, including art and design, fashion, languages, drama, dance, music, health and humanities.

Morley College

Further Education

Lambeth, Southwark, Kensington and Chelsea

Andrew Gower

Mixed

17,000 (2020)[1]

http://www.morleycollege.ac.uk/

(1914–1991), art historian

Cyril Aldred

Dr Anthony Blowers CBE, Commissioner of the Mental Health Act Commission, 1987–95

[5]

Geoffrey Bowler, chief general manager of the , 1977–87

Sun Alliance & London Insurance Group

(1939–2009), journalist

Frank Branston

Sir (1905–1987), Conservative MP for Gillingham, 1950–83

Frederick Burden

(1915–2008), systems analyst; helped design LEO, the world's first business computer[6]

David Caminer

(b. 1973), Turner Prize nominee artist

Spartacus Chetwynd

(1908–1973), writer

John Creasey

Andrew Crowcroft, psychiatrist

Dr William Davies CBE, Director of the , 1949–64; President of the British Grassland Society, 1948–49 and 1960–61

Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research

[7][8]

Tony Dyson

Gordon East, professor of geography at , 1947–70; President of the Institute of British Geographers, 1959–60

Birkbeck, University of London

Labour MP for Norwood, 1966–97

John Fraser

Prof Reg Garton, Professor of Spectroscopy at , 1964–79;[9] discovered the quadratic Zeeman structure in atomic spectra; worked on autoionization of atoms

Imperial College London

actor

Stephen Greif

musician

Steve Hackett

actor

Johnny Harris

Prof Sir , Isaac Wolfson Professor of Metallurgy at the University of Oxford, 1966–92

Peter Hirsch

Prof E R Huehns, Professor of Haematology at , 1975–90 discovered embryonic haemoglobin

University College London

actor

George Innes

born Donald Wheal, author

Donald James

Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle since 1997

Alan Johnson

Liberal

Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran

footballer

Malcolm Macdonald

swimmer at 1960 and 1964 Olympics

John Martin-Dye

Donald McMillan CB OBE, chairman of Cable & Wireless, 1967–72

Col

Sir , chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, 1955–72

Bernard Miller

Cyril Morgan OBE, secretary of the , 1961–82

Institution of Structural Engineers

Michael Mullin, lead singer with

Modern Romance

James Page, CBE, commissioner of the , 1971–77

City of London Police

actor

Jeremy Spenser

Prof James Swarbrick, professor of Pharmaceutics at the , 1981–93

University of North Carolina

Harry Turner, managing director of , 1975–92

Television South West

David Wechsler, chief executive of the , 1993–2007

London Borough of Croydon

Prof CBE (1908–1997), painter and professor of painting at the Royal College of Art, 1957–73

Carel Weight

Departments[edit]

Music Department[edit]

Gustav Holst was music director at the college from 1907 to 1924 and its main music room is named after him.


Michael Tippett was director of music at Morley College from 1940 to 1951. His first connection with the college was as conductor of an orchestra of unemployed musicians, who gave the first performance of one of his best loved early works, the Concerto for Double String Orchestra.


Morley Chamber Choir, the Morley Chamber Orchestra, and Morley College Choir are established music groups within the college.

Morley College official site

Short and Girlie Theatre company

Bedlamb theatre company

Morley Chamber Choir

Save Morley Drama campaign video

Save Morley Drama campaign website

Morley Gallery

Campaign to Save Morley College Drama Course Prevails, The Stage, 24 April 2007

Industry Figures Back Campaign to Save Historic Drama Course, The Stage, 13 February 2007

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