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Sir Christopher Rupert Waterlow 5th Baronet, Waterlow of London

Early Life

Born 12 August 1959 at St George’s hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London, only child of (Peter) Rupert (1925-1969) and Jill Elizabeth neé Gourlay (1925-1961). (Father served as Sub-Lieutenant in the RNVR from 1943-1947, seeing action in Europe and the Far East, before joining the family firm of Waterlow and Sons Ltd as a Director, resigning from the company one month before his untimely death from a heart attack in February 1969.)

Educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire. After showing no particular interest in academic life, he was enrolled at Edward Greene’s tutorial establishment in Oxford as an encouragement to complete his ‘A’ levels. However, this became a forlorn hope and he returned to Stonyhurst in January 1977 to sit the exams. After leaving Stonyhurst in July 1977 he spent the next six months in San Francisco CA before returning to the UK taking up a casual job working as a dispatch packer for Hozelock.

Career

Early the following year (1978) he moved back up to London to start a job as a clerical officer with the Metropolitan Police Civil Staff at New Scotland Yard, ending up working in various departments of the organisation for the next eleven years. In January 1990 he resigned from Scotland Yard to start up his own video production company, Crown Productions, based in Bromley, Kent. The company produced corporate and performance videos and wedding films for the next seven years. In September 1997 he enrolled as a full-time student at Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication in Chislehurst, Kent to undertake a two-year BTEC HND course in Broadcast Technical Operations from which he graduated in July 1999. Being head hunted by the fledging shopping channel QVC, he started work there as a technical operator in August 1999 being promoted to a lighting cameraman post ten months later. In January 2014 there was a promotion to camera supervisor, a position he currently holds. In addition to working at QVC, he has been employed in a freelance broadcast capacity by several other organisations including the BBC, ITV, Sky, LBC, New England Patriots TV (CBS affiliate), European Food Safety Authority, AdVision TV, the London Fire Brigade, Middlesex and Surrey County Cricket Clubs, Intel, Kimberly-Clark, GlaxoSmithKline and several others.

As well as the broadcasting work, he is twice published (see bibliography), also working as a freelance Indexer and semi-professional musician.

Bibliography

Waterlow, Chris. The House of Waterlow, a printer’s tale (2012), Matador Publishing ISBN 9781783060160

Waterlow, Chris. A London Apprentice (2021) Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishing ISBN 9781800161061