Federated Institution of Mining Engineers

1889 Formation of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers

1890 The first General Meeting was held in Sheffield on the 22nd and 23rd of Jan 1890. John Marley of Newcastle-on-Tyne president, occupied the chair. Other members present at the first meeting were:

• C. E. Rhodes.
• W. Cochrane.
• John Daglish of South Shields.
• G. B. Forster, FGS, Newcastle.
• G. Lewis, Derby.
• A. Sopwith Chastetown, Walsall.
• W. Armstrong, jun of Wingate, Durham.
• E. Bainbridge, Sheffield.
• T. J. Berwick, FGS, London.
• R. F. Boyd, Houghton-Le-Spring.
• M. Walton Brown.
• C. E. Coke, Brimington, near Chesterfield.
• T. Douglas, Darlington.
• G. C. Greenwell, FGS, Duffield.
• J. A. Longden, Blackwell.
• George May, South Shields.
• J. Mitchell, Barnsley.
• J. B. Simpson, FGS, Blaydon.
• A. H. Stokes, Derby.
• G. B. Walker.
• G. A. Lebour - Secretary.
• John Gerrard, Wakefield.
• T. W. Embleton.
• C. Le Neve Foster.
• G. F. Bell, HM Inspector, Durham.
• General Hayward.
• G. Hewitt.
• Professor Hicks.
• Professor A. Lupton.
• Thomas Newbould.
• Miles Settle.
• Alexander Smith.
• Henry Lee.
• Thomas Andrews, FRS.
• T. W. H. Mitchell.

1897 Meeting in Edinburgh

1898 Change of name to Institution of Mining Engineers

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• The Transactions of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers comprise the papers read at general meetings of the Federated institutes (Manchester Geological and Mining Society; Midland Counties Institution of Engineers; Midland Institute of Mining, Civil, and Mechanical Engineers; Mining Institute of Scotland; North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; North Staffordshire Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; South Staffordshire and Warwickshire Institute of Mining Engineers) and of the Institution of Mining Engineers together with "Notes of papers on the working of mines, metallurgy, etc., from the Transactions of colonial and foreign societies etc."

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