Julian Vereker

Julian Charles Prendergast Vereker, MBE (7 May 1945 – 14 January 2000) was an English self-taught designer of hi-fi audio equipment, and founder of Naim Audio Ltd. of Salisbury, Wiltshire.

Vereker was considered a specialist in high fidelity audio equipment field and was a very influential figure in the manufacture and retail of British audio in the 1970s and 1980s.

He was appointed MBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1995.

Biography

Family and education

Julian Vereker was born in Oxford, England. He was the great-great grandson of the 3rd Viscount Gort. His great-grandfather had been Consul at Cherbourg and his grandfather a naval commander; his father Charles became Professor of Political Theory at Durham University. Vereker therefore grew up in a lively academic family, which did not prevent him from becoming a rebellious adolescent in the 1960s. Though requiring four attempts to pass O Level mathematics, he developed a passion for engineering, left Bryanston School at 16. He attended technical college in Liverpool, followed by the College of Aero and Automobile Engineering in London.