Institution of Mechanical Engineers
List of presidents
† Baker resigned in June 2018.

Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Section Title: List of presidents
Table Section Text: † Baker resigned in June 2018.

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 (First term)	pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering

5	1858–1859	John Penn (First term)	Marine Steam engines

6	1860	James Kennedy	Marine engines and locomotives

7	1861–1862	William George Armstrong (First term)	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 (Second term)	pioneer of machine tools, precision engineering

5	1866–1868	John Penn (Second term)	Marine Steam Engines

7	1868–1869	William George Armstrong (Second term)	Industrialist and inventor, primarily of armaments. Pioneer of domestic electricity

9	1870–1871	John Ramsbottom	railway engineer

10	1872–1873	Sir William Siemens	Metallurgist and electrical engineer

11	1874–1875	Sir 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 G. B. Westmacott	Hydraulic machinery

16	1884	Sir 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	Sir William Anderson	Bridges and factories

22	1894–1895	Prof. 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	Sir 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	Sir John Audley Frederick Aspinall	Chief Mechanical Engineer, Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway

31	1911–1912	Edward B. Ellington	Hydraulic machinery

32	1913–1914	Sir 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. Died during year of office

36	1920–1921	Cpt Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey	Military engineering, oil engines and wireless telegraphy

37	1922	Dr Henry Selby Hele-Shaw	Prof. Mechanical Engineering at Liverpool University

38	1923	Sir John Dewrance	Inventor

39	1924	William Henry Patchell	Electricity supply

40	1925	Sir Vincent Raven	Chief Mechanical Engineer, North Eastern Railway

41	1926	Sir William Reavell	Compressor manufacturer

42	1927	Sir 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	Major-General Alexander Elliott Davidson	Mechanised military transport

51	1936	Sir Nigel Gresley	Chief Mechanical Engineer, London and North Eastern Railway

52	1937	Sir John Edward Thornycroft	Ship building and motor vehicle design

53	1938	David E Roberts	Iron and steel manufacture

54	1939	E. Bruce Ball	Motor Vehicles and hydraulic valves

55	1940	Asa Binns	Engineer

56	1941	Sir William Stanier	Chief Mechanical Engineer, London, Midland and Scottish Railway

57	1942	Col Stephen Joseph Thompson	Boilers

58	1943	Frederick Charles Lea	Engineering Professor at Birmingham and Sheffield Universities

59	1944	Sir Harry Ralph Ricardo	Automotive engineer. Founder, Ricardo Consulting

60	1945	Andrew Robertson	Prof. Mechanical engineering at Bristol University

61	1946	Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid	Chief Mechanical Engineer, Southern Railway

62	1947	Lord Dudley Gordon	Refrigeration engineering

63	1948	E. William Gregson	Marine engines

64	1949	Herbert John Gough	Metal Fatigue, Engineering Research

65	1950	Stanley Fabes Dorey	Chief Engineer Surveyor

66	1951	Arthur Clifford Hartley	Chief engineer, Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Inventor, Pluto and Fido

67	1952	Sir 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 Nelson	Chairman English Electric

73	1958	Air Marshal Sir Robert Owen Jones	Aircraft Engineer

74	1959	Herbert Desmond Carter	Diesel Engines

75	1960	Sir Owen Alfred Saunders	Prof. Mechanical Engineering Imperial College

76	1961	Sir Charles Hague	Chairman, Babcock & Wilcox

77	1962	John Hereward Pitchford	Internal Combustion engines

78	1963	Roland Curling Bond	Chief Mechanical Engineer, British Railways

79	1964	Vice-Admiral Sir Frank Mason	Engineer in chief, Royal Navy

80	1965	Harold Norman Gwynne Allen	Power Transmission

81	1966	Lord Hinton of Bankside	Pioneer of nuclear power

82	1967	Hugh Graham Conway	Aero-engines and gas turbines

83	1968	Sir Arnold Lewis George Lindley	Chairman of GEC

84	1969	Donald Frederick Galloway	Manufacturing and machine tool engineer

85	1970	John Lamb Murray Morrison	Prof. Mechanical engineering Bristol University

86	1971	Robert Lang Lickley	Aircraft engineer

87	1972	Lord Stokes	Chief executive, British Leyland

88	1973	Sir John William Atwell	Steel industry and pump manufacture

89	1974	Sir St John de Hold Elstub	Metals

90	1975	Paul Thomas Fletcher	Process plan and nuclear power plant

91	1976	Ewen McEwen	Chief engineer, Lucas

92	1977	Sir 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, Lloyd's Register of Shipping

96	1981	Francis David Penny	Director, National Engineering Laboratory

97	1982	Victor John Osola/Vaino Junani Osola	Process engineer, safety glass

98	1983	George Fritz Werner Adler	Research Director, British Hydromechanical Research Association

99	1984	Waheeb Rizk	Gas turbines at GEC

100	1985	Sir Philip Foreman	Aerospace engineer

101	1986	Sir Bernard Crossland	Prof. Mechanical Engineering, 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	Prof of Fluid Mechanics, 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	MD of WS Atkins

117	2003	Chris Taylor	Tribology

119	2004	William Edgar	Offshore engineering

120	2005	Andrew Ives	Automobile engine electronics

121	2006	W. Alec Osborn MBE

122	2007	John Baxter	nuclear engineer

123	2008	William M. Banks	Composite materials. Professor, University of Strathclyde

124	2009	Keith Millard

125	2010	John Wood	Automotive

126	2011	Roderick Smith	Rail engineer

127	2012	Isobel Pollock	Engineering management

128	2013	Patrick Kniveton	Nuclear Engineering - Rolls Royce

129	2014	Group Captain Mark Hunt OBE	RAF

130	2015	Professor Richard Folkson	Chief Engineer of Ford of Europe, lecturer at University of Hertfordshire

131	2016	Jon Hilton	Kinetic energy recovery system pioneer, Deputy Chairman of Torotrak PLC

132	2017	Carolyn Griffiths	Railway and Railway Accident Investigation

133	2018†	Geoff Baker

Sentence(s)

As of 2018, there have been 133 presidents in the Institution.

final_sentence: As of 2018, there have been 133 presidents in the Institution.