Olympics gymnast).
=== Notable faculty and staff ===
Notable former Westminster faculty and staff include Sir George Cayley (the father of aeronautical engineering), Charles Algernon Parsons (engineer and inventor of the steam turbine), Rachel Aldred (academic specializing in active mobility), Tom Ang (photographer and BBC presenter), Cherie Blair (senior barrister, wife of former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair), Harpal Brar (founder and former chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)), Richard Burton (visiting lecturer and managing editor of the Jewish Chronicle), Nicholas Garnham (emeritus professor in the field of media studies), Andrew Groves (fashion designer), Catherine Grubb, artist (taught at Harrow School of Art), Mayer Hillman (senior fellow emeritus at the Policy Studies Institute), Peter H Millard (president of the UK Nosokinetics Group), Chantal Mouffe (political theorist), Ezra Pound (prominent modernist figure in poetry), Joshua Oppenheimer (Oscar nominated filmmaker), John Henry Pepper (scientist and inventor), Jean Seaton (professor of media history and official historian of the BBC), Alfred Waterhouse (architect and designer of the Natural History Museum), George Checkley (Modernist architect) and Brian Winston (Emmy award-winning documentary script writer).
== See also ==
Armorial of UK universities
List of universities in the UK
Polytechnic Touring Association
Post-1992 universities
Ragged School
== References ==
== Further reading ==
The Education of the Eye: History of the Royal Polytechnic Institution 1838–1881 Granta Editions (November 2008) ISBN 1-85757-097-9.
An Education in Sport: Competition, Communities and Identities at the University of Westminster since 1864 Granta Editions (March 2012) ISBN 1-85757-108-8
Educating Mind, Body and Spirit: The legacy of Quintin Hogg and the Polytechnic, 1864–1992 Granta Editions (April 2013) ISBN 1-85757-117-7
160 Years of Innovation: the Polytechnic Institution to the University of Westminster 1838–1998 …
