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

1871–1899
• 1872	Sir Charles William Siemens FRS

• 1873	Frank Ives Scudamore CB

• 1874	Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) OM GCVO FRS

• 1875	Latimer Clark FRS

• 1876	Charles Vincent Walker FRS

• 1877	Sir Frederick Augustus Abel Bt KCB GCVO FRS

• 1878	Sir Charles William Siemens FRS (2nd term)

• 1879	Lieut-Colonel Sir John Underwood Bateman-Champain KCMG RE

• 1880	Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS

• 1881	George Carey Foster FRS

• 1882	Major-General Charles Edmund Webber CB RE

• 1883	Willoughby Smith

• 1884	William Grylls Adams FRS

• 1885	Charles Ernest Paolo Della Diana Spagnoletti

• 1886	David Edward Hughes FRS

• 1887	Sir Charles Tilston Bright

• 1888	Edward Graves

• 1889	Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) OM GCVO FRS (2nd term)

• 1890	John Hopkinson FRS

• 1891	Sir William Crookes OM FRS

• 1892	William Edward Ayrton FRS

• 1893	Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS (2nd term)

• 1894	Alexander Siemens

• 1895	Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS

• 1896	John Hopkinson FRS (2nd term)

• 1897	Sir Henry Christopher Mance CIE

• 1898	Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS

• 1899	Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS

1900–1999
• 1900	John Perry FRS

• 1901	William Edward Langdon

• 1902	Sir James Swinburne Bt FRS

• 1903	Robert Kaye Gray

• 1904	Alexander Siemens (2nd term)

• 1905	Sir John Gavey CB

• 1906	Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS

• 1907	Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson, (Baron Kelvin of Largs)) OM GCVO FRS (3rd term)

• 1908	Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS

• 1908	William Morris Mordey

• 1909	Gisbert Kapp

• 1910–11 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS

• 1912–13 William Duddell CBE FRS

• 1914	Sir John Francis Cleverton Snell GBE

• 1915–16 Charles Pratt Sparks CBE

• 1917–18 Charles Henry Wordingham CBE

• 1919	Roger Thomas Smith

• 1920	Llewelyn Birchall Atkinson

• 1921	John Somerville Highfield

• 1922	Frank Gill OBE

• 1923	Alexander Russell FRS

• 1924	William Bradley Woodhouse

• 1925	Richard Alexander Chattock

• 1926	William Henry Eccles FRS

• 1927	Sir Archibald Page

• 1928	Lieut-Colonel Kenelm Edgcumbe

• 1929	Colonel Sir Thomas Fortune Purves OBE(Mil)

• 1930	Clifford Copland Paterson OBE

• 1931	John Muir Donaldson MC

• 1932	Edgar Walford Marchant

• 1933	Philip Vassar Hunter CBE

• 1934	William Mundell Thornton OBE

• 1935	John Macfarlane Kennedy OBE

• 1936	Henry Thomas Young

• 1937	Lieut-Colonel Sir A George Lee OBE MC

• 1938	Sir Arthur P M Fleming CBE

• 1939	Johnsone Wright

• 1940	James Robert Beard CBE

• 1941	Sir Noel Ashbridge

• 1942	Professor Cecil Lewis Fortescue OBE

• 1943	Colonel Sir Stanley Angwin KCMG KBE DSO MC TD

• 1944	Sir Harry Railing

• 1945	Dr Percy Dunsheath CBE

• 1946	Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti

• 1947	Percy Good CBE FCGI

• 1948	Thomas Graeme N Haldane

• 1949	Professor Eric Bailleul Moullin

• 1950	Sir Archibald Gill

• 1951	Sir John Hacking

• 1952	Colonel Bruce Hamer Leeson CBE TD

• 1953	Harold Bishop CBE

• 1954	Josiah Eccles CBE MM

• 1955	Sir George Nelson Bt

• 1956	Sir William Gordon Radley KCB CBE

• 1957	Thomas Edward Goldup CBE

• 1958	Sidney Edward Goodall CBE

• 1959	Sir Willis Jackson FRS

• 1960	Sir Hamish Maclaren KBE CB

• 1961	George Sail Campbell Lucas OBE

• 1962	Cecil Thomas Melling CBE

• 1963	Sir Albert Mumford KBE

• 1964	Olliver William Humphreys CBE

• 1965	Leonard Drucquer

• 1966	John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FEng FRS

• 1967	Sir Stanley Brown CBE FEng

• 1968	Professor John Millar Meek CBE FEng

• 1969	David Edmondson

• 1970	Henry George Nelson, Lord Nelson of Stafford FEng

• 1971	Professor John Flavell Coales CBE FEng FRS

• 1972	Sir Eric Eastwood CBE FRS

• 1973	Archibald George Milne

• 1974	James Henry Herbert Merriman CB OBE FEng

• 1975	Robert James Clayton CBE FEng

• 1976	Eric Stuart Booth CBE FEng FRS

• 1977	John McIntyre Ferguson CBE FEng

• 1978	James Redmond FEng

• 1979	Professor John Brown CBE FEng

• 1980	Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin KBE CB

• 1981	Sir Francis Tombs FEng

• 1982	John Banks FEng

• 1983	Maldwyn Noel John FEng

• 1984	Professor John Clifford West CBE FEng

• 1985	Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson KCB FEng FRSE

• 1986	Dr Geoffrey Thomas Shepherd CBE

• 1987	Professor Eric Albert Ash CBE DSc FEng FRS

• 1988	Thomas Bryce McCrirrick CBE DSc FEng

• 1989	James Cadzow Smith CBE LLD FEng FRSE

• 1990	David Arthur Jones BSc PhD FEng

• 1991	Brian William Manley BSc DIC FCGI FEng

• 1992	Professor Peter John Lawrenson DSc FEng FRS

• 1993	Alan Walter Rudge OBE PhD FEng FRS

• 1994	Professor Sir David Evan Naunton Davies CBE DSc FEng FRS

• 1995	John Parnaby CBE PhD DEng DSc DTech D Univ FEng

• 1996	Robert Hawley DSc PhD BSc FEng

• 1997	David Jefferies CBE FEng

• 1998	Dr John Michael Taylor FRS FEng

• 1999	Dr Malcolm William Kennedy FREng

2000–2005

 * 2000	Professor John Edwin Midwinter FREng FRS
 * 2001	Professor Brian Mellitt FREng DIC
 * 2002	Professor Michael John Howard Sterling FREng
 * 2003	Sir David Brown FREng CEng BSc DMS
 * 2004	Professor John O'Reilly FREng
 * 2005	Sir John Chisholm FREng CEng (last president)

For presidents from 2005–present, see Presidents of the Institution of Engineering and Technology