Back, Edward James (1924-1999), alumnus

Edward James Back was born on 10 May 1924 and died on 28 June 1999. He studied electrical engineering at Faraday House from 1941-1944, and was awarded an Honours diploma with silver and gold medals (the only student to do so). From 1944-1945 he was a temporary experimental officer at the Admiralty Research Laboratory at Teddington. In 1949 he gained an external University of London BSc (Engineering) at Regent Street Polytechnic, and worked from 1949-1956 as Senior Assistant to S. Austen Stigant in the Education Department of Johnson and Phillips at Charlton. In 1953 he became a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (MIEE). He worked as a Personnel and Training Officer at BP from 1956-58 and then at Henry Wiggin in Hereford.

From 1963-1965 Back was at the London College of Divinity in Northwood, gaining the ALCD, after which he was curate of Emmanuel Church, Northwood, Middlesex, from 1965-1969. He then returned to electrical engineering, and lectured in that subject at Hendon College of Technology (a predecessor body of the University of Middlesex), where he was also honorary chaplin, for 19 years.