List of presidents of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
This is a list of presidents of the Institution of Electrical Engineers from its formation in 1871 until 2005, the date of amalgamation with the Institution of Incorporated Engineers to form the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Prior to 1889 the Institution was known as the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians.
List of presidents[]
Source: IET Archives
2000–2005[]
- 2005 Sir John Chisholm FREng CEng (last president)
- 2004 Professor John O'Reilly FREng
- 2003 Sir FREng CEng BSc DMS
- 2002 Professor Michael John Howard Sterling FREng
- 2001 Professor FREng DIC
- 2000 Professor John Edwin Midwinter FREng FRS
1900–1999[]
- 1999 Dr Malcolm William Kennedy FREng
- 1998 Dr John Michael Taylor FRS FEng
- 1997 David Jefferies CBE FEng
- 1996 Robert Hawley DSc PhD BSc FEng
- 1995 John Parnaby CBE PhD DEng DSc DTech D Univ FEng
- 1994 Professor Sir David Evan Naunton Davies CBE DSc FEng FRS
- 1993 Alan Walter Rudge OBE PhD FEng FRS
- 1992 Professor Peter John Lawrenson DSc FEng FRS
- 1991 Brian William Manley BSc DIC FCGI FEng
- 1990 David Arthur Jones BSc PhD FEng
- 1989 James Cadzow Smith CBE LLD FEng FRSE
- 1988 Thomas Bryce McCrirrick CBE DSc FEng
- 1987 Professor Eric Albert Ash CBE DSc FEng FRS
- 1986 Dr Geoffrey Thomas Shepherd CBE
- 1985 Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson KCB FEng FRSE
- 1984 Professor John Clifford West CBE FEng
- 1983 Maldwyn Noel John FEng
- 1982 John Banks FEng
- 1981 Sir Francis Tombs FEng
- 1980 Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin KBE CB
- 1979 Professor John Brown CBE FEng
- 1978 James Redmond FEng
- 1977 John McIntyre Ferguson CBE FEng
- 1976 Eric Stuart Booth CBE FEng FRS
- 1975 Robert James Clayton CBE FEng
- 1974 James Henry Herbert Merriman CB OBE FEng
- 1973 Archibald George Milne
- 1972 Sir Eric Eastwood CBE FRS
- 1971 Professor John Flavell Coales CBE FEng FRS
- 1970 Henry George Nelson, Lord Nelson of Stafford FEng
- 1969 David Edmondson
- 1968 Professor John Millar Meek CBE FEng
- 1967 Sir Stanley Brown CBE FEng
- 1966 John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FEng FRS
- 1965 Leonard Drucquer
- 1964 Olliver William Humphreys CBE
- 1963 Sir Albert Mumford KBE
- 1962 Cecil Thomas Melling CBE
- 1961 George Sail Campbell Lucas OBE
- 1960 Sir Hamish Maclaren KBE CB
- 1959 Sir Willis Jackson FRS
- 1958 Sidney Edward Goodall CBE
- 1957 Thomas Edward Goldup CBE
- 1956 Sir William Gordon Radley KCB CBE
- 1955 Sir George Nelson Bt
- 1954 Josiah Eccles CBE MM
- 1953 Harold Bishop CBE
- 1952 Colonel Bruce Hamer Leeson CBE TD
- 1951 Sir John Hacking
- 1950 Sir Archibald Gill
- 1949
- 1948 Thomas Graeme N Haldane
- 1947 Percy Good CBE FCGI
- 1946 Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti
- 1945 Dr Percy Dunsheath CBE
- 1944 Sir Harry Railing
- 1943 Colonel Sir Stanley Angwin KCMG KBE DSO MC TD
- 1942 Professor Cecil Lewis Fortescue OBE
- 1941 Sir Noel Ashbridge
- 1940 James Robert Beard CBE
- 1939 Johnsone Wright
- 1938 Sir Arthur P M Fleming CBE
- 1937 Lieut-Colonel Sir A George Lee OBE MC
- 1936 Henry Thomas Young
- 1935 John Macfarlane Kennedy OBE
- 1934 William Mundell Thornton OBE
- 1933 Philip Vassar Hunter CBE
- 1932 Edgar Walford Marchant
- 1931 John Muir Donaldson MC
- 1930 Clifford Copland Paterson OBE
- 1929 Colonel Sir Thomas Fortune Purves OBE(Mil)
- 1928 Lieut-Colonel Kenelm Edgcumbe
- 1927 Sir Archibald Page
- 1926 William Henry Eccles FRS
- 1925 Richard Alexander Chattock
- 1924 William Bradley Woodhouse
- 1923 Alexander Russell FRS
- 1922 Frank Gill OBE
- 1921 John Somerville Highfield
- 1920
- 1919 Roger Thomas Smith
- 1917–18 Charles Henry Wordingham CBE
- 1915–16 Charles Pratt Sparks CBE
- 1914 Sir John Francis Cleverton Snell GBE
- 1912–13 William Duddell CBE FRS
- 1910–11 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS
- 1909 Gisbert Kapp
- 1908 William Morris Mordey
- 1908 Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS
- 1907 Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson, (Baron Kelvin of Largs)) OM GCVO FRS (3rd term)
- 1906 Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS
- 1905 Sir John Gavey CB
- 1904 Alexander Siemens (2nd term)
- 1903 Robert Kaye Gray
- 1902 Sir James Swinburne Bt FRS
- 1901 William Edward Langdon
- 1900 John Perry FRS
1871–1899[]
- 1899 Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS
- 1898 Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS
- 1897 Sir Henry Christopher Mance CIE
- 1896 John Hopkinson FRS (2nd term)
- 1895 Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS
- 1894 Alexander Siemens
- 1893 Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS (2nd term)
- 1892 William Edward Ayrton FRS
- 1891 Sir William Crookes OM FRS
- 1890 John Hopkinson FRS
- 1889 Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) OM GCVO FRS (2nd term)
- 1888 Edward Graves
- 1887 Sir Charles Tilston Bright
- 1886 David Edward Hughes FRS
- 1885 Charles Ernest Paolo Della Diana Spagnoletti
- 1884 William Grylls Adams FRS
- 1883 Willoughby Smith
- 1882 Major-General Charles Edmund Webber CB RE
- 1881 George Carey Foster FRS
- 1880 Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS
- 1879 Lieut-Colonel Sir John Underwood Bateman-Champain KCMG RE
- 1878 Sir Charles William Siemens FRS (2nd term)
- 1877 Sir Frederick Augustus Abel Bt KCB GCVO FRS
- 1876 Charles Vincent Walker FRS
- 1875 Latimer Clark FRS
- 1874 Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) OM GCVO FRS
- 1873 Frank Ives Scudamore CB
- 1872 Sir Charles William Siemens FRS
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