Presidents
See also: Category:Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers
The following is a list of presidents of the Society from its inception. Honorary Members are shown in italics. In 1793 the Society was reconstituted without a President. The post was reintroduced as an annually elected position in 1841:
- 1771 Thomas Yeoman
- 1781 Christopher Pinchbeck
- 1783 Joseph Nickalls
- 1841 Sir John Rennie
- 1842 William Chadwell Mylne
- 1843 Bryan Donkin
- 1844 George Rennie
- 1845 William Cubitt
- 1846 Dr Peter Mark Roget, MD
- 1847 Robert Stephenson
- 1848 Joshua Field
- 1849 John Taylor
- 1850 James Simpson
- 1851 Thomas Lloyd
- 1852 James Walker
- 1853 Charles Blacker Vignoles
- 1854 Joseph Baxendale
- 1855 Sir John Rennie(2nd term)
- 1856 Robert Stephenson (2nd term)
- 1857 John Hawkshaw
- 1858 Henry Wollaston Blake
- 1859 William Chadwell Mylne (2nd term)
- 1860 John Murray
- 1861 William Gravatt
- 1862 Charles Hutton Gregory
- 1863 Captain John Linton Arabin Simmons, RE
- 1864 William Lindley
- 1865 Peter William Barlow
- 1866 Charles Blacker Vignoles (2nd term)
- 1867 Alfred Giles
- 1868 John Fowler
- 1869 John Penn
- 1870 Col. William Francis Drummond Jervois, RE
- 1871 John Frederic La Trobe Bateman
- 1872 Bryan Donkin
- 1873 George Banks Rennie
- 1874 Dr John Percy, MD
- 1875 William Henry Barlow
- 1876 Joseph William Bazalgette
- 1877 James Abernethy
- 1878 James Brunlees
- 1879 Charles William Siemens
- 1880 No president elected
- 1881 Warington Wilkinson Smyth
- 1882 George Barclay Bruce
- 1883 Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell
- 1884 Edward Woods
- 1885 Thomas Hawksley
- 1886 Frederick Augustus Abel
- 1887 Robert Joseph Rawlinson
- 1888 Col.William Crossman, RE
- 1889 John Clarke Hawkshaw
- 1890 Richard Boxall Grantham
- 1891 Captain John Linton Arabin Simmons, RE (2nd term)
- 1892 John Wolfe Barry
- 1893 Samuel Pope, QC
- 1894 Benjamin Baker
- 1895 Henry Marc Brunel
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- 1896 Captain Douglas Galton, RE
- 1897 Frank McClean
- 1898 William Henry Preece
- 1899 Captain Andrew Noble, RA
- 1900 William Henry White
- 1901 Francis Willam Webb
- 1902 James Dewar
- 1903 Percy George Buchanan Westmacott
- 1904 Alexander Richardson Binnie
- 1905 George Chatterton
- 1906 Alexander Siemens
- 1907 George Neill Abernethy
- 1908 Alexander Blackie William Kennedy
- 1909 George Frederick Deacon
- 1910 Cuthbert Andrew Brereton
- 1911 Charles Hawksley
- 1912 George Robert Jebb
- 1913 William Cawthorne Unwin
- 1914 Philip Watts
- 1915-18 No president
- 1919 John Hutton Balfour Browne, KC
- 1920 Saxton William Armstrong Noble
- 1921 John Strain
- 1922 John Harvard Biles
- 1923 Robert Elliott-Cooper
- 1924 Maurice Fitzmaurice
- 1925 Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
- 1926 Henry Reginald Arnulph Mallock
- 1927 John Assheton Rennie
- 1928 William Barton Worthington
- 1929 Engineer Vice Admiral Henry John Oram
- 1930 John Henry Tudsbery Tudsbery
- 1931 John Audley Frederick Aspinall
- 1932 Sir Archibald Denny, Bart
- 1933 Kenneth Alfred Wolfe Barry
- 1934 Charles Langbridge Morgan
- 1935 William Vaux Graham
- 1936 Ernest Frederic Crosbie Trench
- 1937 Charles Pratt Sparks
- 1938 John McFarlane Kennedy
- 1939 Thomas Garmondsway Wrightson
- 1940 No president
- 1941 Sir Westcott Stile Abell
- 1942 Sir Eustace Henry Tennyson-d'Eyncourt, Bart
- 1943 Maurice Fitzgerald Wilson
- 1944 Sir John Edward Thornycroft
- 1945 Sir Richard Augustine Studdart Redmayne
- 1946 William James Eames Binnie
- 1947 Sir Alexander Gibb
- 1948 Sir Leopold Halliday Savile
- 1949 Sydney Bryan Donkin
- 1950 Sir Cyril Reginald Sutton Kirkpatrick
- 1951 Engineer Vice Admiral Sir Reginald William Skelton
- 1952 Sir Murdoch MacDonald, MP
- 1953 David Anderson
- 1954 William Thomson Halcrow
- 1955 Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Robertson Davidson
- 1956 Marmaduke Tudsbery Tudsbery (Member Emeritus)
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- 1957 Vernon Alec Murray Robertson
- 1958 Thomas Edwin Hawksley
- 1959 Allan Stephen Quartermaine
- 1960 Major William Henry Morgan
- 1961 Brigadier Bruce Gordon White
- 1962 William Kelly Wallace
- 1963 Reginald Duncan Gwyther
- 1964 John Garmondsway Wrightson
- 1965 John Sunderland Langdale Train
- 1966 George Matthew McNaughton
- 1967 Vice Admiral (E) Sir Denys Chester Ford
- 1968 David Mowat Watson
- 1969 William Henry Glanville
- 1970 Geoffrey Morse Binnie (Member Emeritus)
- 1971 HRH the Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh, KG, PC, KT
- 1972 Reginald William Mountain
- 1973 Harold John Boyer Harding (Member Emeritus)
- 1974 John Elliott George Palmer (Member Emeritus)
- 1975 Reginald White Hawkey
- 1976 Sir Victor Shepheard (Member Emeritus)
- 1977 Vice Admiral Sir Frank Trowbridge Mason
- 1978 Ralph Freeman (Member Emeritus)
- 1979 Cecil Robert Costeker Turner
- 1980 Thomas Angus Lyall Paton (Member Emeritus)
- 1981 Alec Westley Skempton (Member Emeritus)
- 1982 Douglas Cecil Coode (Member Emeritus)
- 1983 Sir Eric Grant Yarrow, Bart
- 1984 William Gordon Harris
- 1985 Alfred Henry Cantrell
- 1986 John Walter Baxter
- 1987 Rear Admiral John Garth Watson
- 1988 Sir William Kirby Laing
- 1989 Alan James Harris
- 1990 Edwin McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of Moffat (died 1990)
- 1990 Alan Mais, Baron Mais
- 1991 A D Holland
- 1992 F D Penny
- 1993 John Vernon Bartlett
- 1994 N N B Ordman
- 1995 James G Wiltshire
- 1996 Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir James Watt
- 1997 Henry Chilver, The Lord Chilver of Cranfield
- 1998 Vice-Admiral Sir Philip Watson
- 1999 Peter Arthur Cox
- 2000 Sir Hugh Ford
- 2001 John A Gaffney
- 2002 Major General P J M Pellereau
- 2003 Sir Diarmuid Downs
- 2004 Professor Jacques Heyman
- 2005 John C McKenzie
- 2006 Air Marshal Sir Charles Pringle
- 2007 Sir William McAlpine
- 2008 Sir Martin Laing
- 2009 David Gwilym Morris Roberts
- 2010 Sir John Parker
- 2011 Alastair M Soane
- 2012 G O Whitehead
- 2013 George Bartlett QC
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