Institution of Mechanical Engineers: Presidents

Note: This is a sub-section of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

No.	Years	Name	Sphere of Influence
1	1847–1848	George Stephenson	railway engineer
2	1849–1853	Robert Stephenson	railway engineer, MP
3	1854–1855	William Fairbairn	manufacturer, trader, ironmaster, bridge, mill wheels, ships, later made baronet.
4	1856–1857	Joseph Whitworth	pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering
5	1858–1859	John Penn	Marine Steam engines
6	1860	James Kennedy	Marine engines and locomotives
7	1861–1862	William Armstrong	Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity
8	1863–1865	Robert Napier	Ship building and Marine engines
4	1865–1866	Joseph Whitworth	pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering
5	1866–1868	John Penn	Marine Steam Engines
7	1868–1869	William Armstrong	Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity
9	1870–1871	John Ramsbottom	Railway engineer
10	1872–1873	Carl Wilhelm Siemens	Metallurgist and electrical engineer
11	1874–1875	Frederick Joseph Bramwell	Steam engines and boilers
12	1876–1877	Thomas Hawksley	water and gas engineer
13	1878–1879	John Robinson	Steam Engines
14	1880–1881	Edward Alfred Cowper	Metallurgist, inventor of Cowper pot
15	1882–1883	Percy Graham Buchanan Westmacott	Hydraulic machinery
16	1884	Isaac Lowthian Bell	Iron master
17	1885–1886	Jeremiah Head	Steam powered agricultural machinery
18	1887–1888	Edward Hamer Carbutt	Iron and steel making
19	1889	Charles Cochrane	Iron and steel making
20	1890–1891	Joseph Tomlinson	Locomotive Superintendent
21	1892–1893	William Anderson	Bridges and factories
22	1894–1895	Alexander Blackie William Kennedy	Professor of engineering, University College, London
23	1896–1897	Edward Windsor Richards	Iron master
24	1898	Samuel W. Johnson	Chief Mechanical Engineer, Midland Railway
25	1899–1900	William Henry White	Naval architect
26	1901–1902	William Henry Maw	Editor, Engineering
27	1903–1904	Joseph Hartley Wicksteed	Testing machines and machine tools
28	1905–1906	Edward Pritchard Martin	Iron and steel making
29	1907–1908	Tom Hurry Riches	Chief engineer, Taff Vale Railway
30	1909–1910	John Aspinall	Chief Mechanical Engineer, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
31	1911–1912	Edward Bayzand Ellington	Hydraulic machinery
32	1913–1914	Hay Frederick Donaldson	Royal Ordnance
33	1915–1916	William Cawthorne Unwin	oil engine research
34	1917–1918	Michael Longridge	Chief Engineer
35	1919	Edward Hopkinson	Electric Traction
36	1920–1921	Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey	Military engineering, oil engines and wireless telegraphy
37	1922	Henry Selby Hele-Shaw	Prof. Mechanical Engieering at Liverpool University
38	1923	John Dewrance	Inventor
39	1924	William Henry Patchell	Electricity supply
40	1925	Vincent Raven	Chief Mechanical Engineer, North Eastern Railway
41	1926	William Reavell	Compressor manufacturer
42	1927	Henry Fowler	Chief Mechanical Engineer, Midland Railway and London, Midland and Scottish Railway
43	1928	Richard William Allen	Pumps and Marine equipment
44	1929	Daniel Adamson	Gears, cranes and cutting tools
45	1930	Loughnan St. Lawrence Pendred	Editor of The Engineer
46	1931	Edwin Kitson Clark	Locomotive Engineer
47	1932	William Taylor	Lens Manufacturing
48	1933	Alan Ernest Leofric Chorlton	Pumps and Diesel engines, MP
49	1934	Charles Day	Steam and diesel engines
50	1935	Alexander Elliott Davidson	Mechnised military transport
51	1936	Nigel Gresley	Chief Mechanical Engineer, London and North Eastern Railway
52	1937	John Edward Thornycroft	Ship building and motor vehicle design
53	1938	David Evan Roberts	Iron and steel manufacture
54	1939	E. Bruce Ball	Motor Vehicles and hydraulic valves
55	1940	Asa Binns	Engineer
56	1941	William Stanier	Chief Mechanical Engineer, London, Midland and Scottish Railway
57	1942	Stephen Joseph Thompson	Boilers
58	1943	Frederick Charles Lea	Engineering Professor at Birmingham and Sheffield
59	1944	Harry Ricardo	Automotive engineer. Founder, Ricardo Consulting
60	1945	Andrew Robertson	Prof. Mechanical engineering at Bristol University
61	1946	Oliver Bulleid	Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway
62	1947	Dudley Gordon	Refrigeration Engineering
63	1948	William Gregson	Marine Engines
64	1949	Herbert John Gough	Engineering Research
65	1950	Stanley Fabes Dorey	Chief Engineer Surveyor
66	1951	Arthur Clifford Hartley	Chief engineer, Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Inventor, Operation Pluto and Fido
67	1952	David Randall Pye	Air Ministry research engineer
68	1953	Alfred Roebuck	Engineering Metallurgy
69	1954	Richard William Bailey	High temperature steel and materials research
70	1955	Percy Lewis Jones	Marine engines and ship building
71	1956	Thomas Arkle Crowe	Marine Engines
72	1957	George Horatio Nelson	Chairman, English Electric Co
73	1958	Robert Owen Jones	Aircraft Engineer
74	1959	Herbert Desmond Carter	Diesel Engines
75	1960	Owen Alfred Saunders	Prof. Mechanical Engineering Imperial College
76	1961	Kenneth Hague	Chairman, Babcock and Wilcox
77	1962	John Hereward Pitchford	Internal Combustion engines
78	1963	Roland Curling Bond	Railway engineer
79	1964	Frank Mason	Engineer in chief, Royal Navy
80	1965	Harold Norman Gwynne Allen	Power Transmission
81	1966	Christopher Hinton	Pioneer of nuclear power
82	1967	Hugh Graham Conway	Aero-engines and gas turbines
83	1968	Arnold Lewis George Lindley	Chairman of GEC
84	1969	Donald Frederick Galloway	Manufacturing and machine tool engineer
85	1970	John Lamb Murray Morrison	Professor of Mechanical engineering Bristol University
86	1971	Robert Lank Lickley	Aircraft Engineer
87	1972	Donald Gresham Stokes	Chief Executive, British Leyland
88	1973	John William Atwell	Steel industry and pump manufacture
89	1974	Sir St John de Holt Elstub	Metals
90	1975	Paul Thomas Fletcher	Process plan and nuclear power plant
91	1976	Ewen M'Ewen	Chief engineer Lucas
92	1977	Hugh Ford	Professor of mechanical engineering, Imperial College London
93	1978	Diarmuid Downs	Internal Combustion Engines
94	1979	James Gordon Dawson	Chief Engineer, Shell
95	1980	Bryan Hildrew	Managing Director, Lloyds Register of Shipping
96	1981	Francis David Penny	Director National engineering Laboratory
97	1982	Victor John Osola	Process engineer, safety glass
98	1983	George Fritz Werner Adler	Research Director, British Hydromechnical research association
99	1984	Waheeb Rizk	Gas Turbines at GEC
100	1985	Philip Foreman	Aerospace Engineer
101	1986	Bernard Crossland	Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Queen's University Belfast
102	1987	Oscar Roith	Chief Engineer, Department of Industry
103	1988	Cecil Charles John French	Internal Combustion engines
104	1989	Roy Ernest James Roberts	Director GKN
105	1990	Michael John Neale	Tribology
106	1991	Duncan Dowson	Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Leeds University
107	1992	Tom D. Patten	Offshore engineering
108	1993	Anthony Albert Denton	Offshore Engineering
109	1994	Brian Hamilton Kent	Design and engineering management
110	1995	Frank Christopher Price	Technical Director
111	1996	Robert William Ernest Shannon	Inspection Engineering
112	1997	Pamela Liversidge	Powder Metallurgy
113	1998	John Spence
114	1999	James McKnight
115	2000	Denis E. Filer
116	2001	Tony Roche
117	2002	John McDougall
117	2003	Chris Taylor
119	2004	William Edgar
120	2005	Andrew Ives
121	2006	W. Alec Osborn MBE

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