1882 The British Association of Gas Managers became the Gas Institute, partly in response to the new competition from electricity for lighting[1]. Thomas Hawksley was the first President[2]
1883 The twentieth annual general meeting of the Gas Institute was held at Firth College, Sheffield. Mr. Robert Ormiston Paterson was in the chair.
c.1888 There was a split with some members seceding to form a rival institution[3]
By 1894 the institute had been incorporated - Incorporated Gas Institute[4]