The Naked Civil Servant (film) PBS when Thames Television and WOR-TV exchanged programming for one week. In 2000, the film was placed fourth in a poll by industry professionals to find the BFI TV 100 of the 20th century, and was the highest ITV production on the list. The film was released on DVD in 2005. In 2009, Hurt reprised the role of Quentin Crisp in "An Englishman in New York", which covered the latter years of Crisp's life spent in Manhattan. The Naked Civil Servant (film) The Naked Civil Servant is a 1975 biographical film based on Quentin Crisp's 1968 book of the same
James Peck (civil servant) James Peck (civil servant) Sir James Wallace Peck CB FRSE (3 May 1875 – 3 February 1964) was a British civil servant and local government officer. Peck was born in Glasgow, the son of W. Edwin Peck, who worked for Andrew Walker, a linen and cotton merchant. The family lived at 146 Holland Street, a sloping street in Glasgow city centre. He was educated at the Royal Technical College, Glasgow, the University of Glasgow, and Christ Church, Oxford. From 1899, he lectured in mathematical physics at Glasgow University for four years before becoming an inspector of schools in Scotland in