He joined the RTS in 1955 and was awarded a Fellowship in 1978 in recognition of the contribution he had made to the development of electronic engineering facilities for independent television, his contribution to the Society as a member of its Council and as the first Chairman of the new London Centre in 1976.

Roger was educated at the Oxford School of Technology. He joined the BBC in 1954 and subsequently worked for Granada and Associated Rediffusion, joining London Weekend Television in 1968.

He became Chief Engineer in 1972 and Director of Engineering in 1981.

He was Chairman of the ITV Technical Committee in 1976, and Chairman of the ITV Engineering Research and Development Committee twice, in 1979 and 1984.

In these positions, Roger was responsible for building the ITV R&D system of laboratories and ITV’s HDTV development programme, including the first European HDTV outside broadcast unit for the Eureka project.

In 1974, LWT won a contract from the Ministry of Defence and British Forces Broadcasting Service to provide a television service of BBC and ITV programmes to the 20,000 British servicemen in Germany. Roger’s Engineering Group designed and built the system, which started broadcasting in Celle, Germany. His team was also responsible for the first ITV Oracle Teletext Editorial Suite at LWT in 1975. Roger was also President of The British Amateur Television Club from 1981 until 1989.

RTS London founder and the ITV Network’s first Head of Technology, Norman Green, recalls: “Roger and I worked closely together for some 15 years. I well remember driving to LWT at around 6.30pm and going up to the 7th floor where he had his office on the corner of the building overlooking the Houses of Parliament, behind which the sunsets were wonderful.

“We would work on ITV business until about 9pm. This could happen two or three times a week at ‘politically difficult’ times! He was a great person, engineer and friend.”