chairman of the John Lewis Partnership, 1955–72 Cyril Morgan OBE, secretary of the Institution of Structural Engineers, 1961–82 Michael Mullin, lead singer with Modern Romance James Page, CBE, commissioner of the City of London Police, 1971–77 Jeremy Spenser, actor Prof James Swarbrick, professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of North Carolina, 1981–93 Harry Turner, managing director of Television South West, 1975–92 David Wechsler, chief executive of the London Borough of Croydon, 1993–2007 Prof Carel Weight CBE, painter and professor of painting at the Royal College of Art, 1957–73 Carlyle School This was the analogous female school of the Sloane School, a girls' grammar school, whose former buildings became the Sloane School, having been built in 1908. Its buildings were extended in 1937, being officially opened on 4 February 1938. It had a separate governing body from the Sloane School from 1961. It had around 350 girls. Notable alumni Linda Bassett, actress Mary Harron, Canadian film director; dated Tony Blair, former music critic; screenwriter; directed American Psycho, also co-writing the screenplay, and attended with her sister Martha, both daughters of Don Harron Jacqueline Wheldon (1924–1993), author Kensington and Chelsea College Kensington and Chelsea College (KCC) was established in 1990, by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, from a merger of parts of two former institutions. It initially operated from the former Sloane and Carlyle School buildings in Chelsea (see above) and from centres in North Kensington, South Kensington and Notting Hill, together with an evening class programme in Holland Park School. In 1993, the college became an independent Further Education corporation, following implementation of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. The college's first three principals each made a distinctive contribution to its development. Michael Baber, the first principal, laid the foundations for its long-term development. He successfully steered the transition from Local Authority College to freestanding Further Education Corporation, including negotiating freehold ownership of previously shared use sites while developing a strategic partnership with the Local Authority (which included providing its adult education programme and partnership in regeneration projects in North Kensington). Under his leadership the college tripled in size, received a positive inspection report and became the first College in inner London to achieve Investors in People recognition. The college's second Principal, Joanna Gaukroger, was the driving force behind the plan to build a flagship centre at the Chelsea site. part funded by sale of some of the