Leadership and Honours
He was president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (then the Society of Telegraph Engineers) in 1877. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1860, he was a Commander of the Bath (CB) by 13 February 1879, he was knighted on 20 April 1883and received a Royal Medal in 1887. He took an important part in the work of the Inventions Exhibition (London) in 1885, and in 1887 became organizing secretary and first director of the Imperial Institute, a position he held till his death in 1902. He was Rede Lecturer and received an honorary doctorate from Cambridge University in 1888. He was upgraded to a Knight Commander of the Bath (KCB) on 3 February 1891, created a baronet, of Cadogan Place in the Parish of Chelsea in the County of London, on 25 May 1893 and made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) on 8 March 1901. Abel died in September 1902, aged 75, and was buried in Nunhead Cemetery, London. The baronetcy became extinct on his death.
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