Institutions and Awards
Harding served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1963 to November 1964. He was also the first chairman of the British Tunnelling Society from 1971-3 and was a founder fellow of the Fellowship of Engineering in 1976. Harding was elected a fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute in 1952 and of Imperial College in 1968. He also received a knighthood on 13 February 1968 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Sciences degree from City University London in 1970. Harding served as a governor of three separate academic institutions, Westminster Technical College from 1948–53; Northampton Engineering College from 1950–53, and Imperial College from 1955–75.
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“In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.”
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