Past Presidents of the IEE
A list of Presidents of the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers) from 1872 to 2005. The IEE joined with the IIE (Institution of Incorporated Engineers) in March 2006 to become the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology).
| 2005 | Sir John Chisholm FREng CEng FIEE |
| 2004 | Professor John O’Reilly FREng FIEE |
| 2003 | Sir David Brown FREng CEng BSc DMS FIEE |
| 2002 | Professor Michael John Howard Sterling FREng |
| 2001 | Professor Brian Mellitt FREng DIC |
| 2000 | Professor John Edwin Midwinter FREng FRS |
| 1999 | Dr Malcolm William Kennedy FREng |
| 1998 | Dr John Michael Taylor FRS FEng |
| 1997 | David Jefferies CBE FEng |
| 1996 | Robert Hawley DSc PhD BSc FEng |
| 1995 | John Parnaby CBE PhD DEng DSc DTech D Univ FEng |
| 1994 | Professor Sir David Evan Naunton Davies CBE DSc FEng FRS |
| 1993 | Alan Walter Rudge OBE PhD FEng FRS |
| 1992 | Professor Peter John Lawrenson DSc FEng FRS |
| 1991 | Brian William Manley BSc DIC FCGI FEng |
| 1990 | David Arthur Jones BSc PhD FEng |
| 1989 | James Cadzow Smith CBE LLD FEng FRSE |
| 1988 | Thomas Bryce McCrirrick CBE DSc FEng |
| 1987 | Professor Eric Albert Ash CBE DSc FEng FRS |
| 1986 | Dr Geoffrey Thomas Shepherd CBE |
| 1985 | Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson KCB FEng FRSE |
| 1984 | Professor John Clifford West CBE FEng |
| 1983 | Maldwyn Noel John FEng |
| 1982 | John Banks FEng |
| 1981 | Sir Francis Tombs FEng |
| 1980 | Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin KBE CB |
| 1979 | Professor John Brown CBE FEng |
| 1978 | James Redmond FEng |
| 1977 | John McIntyre Ferguson CBE FEng |
| 1976 | Eric Stuart Booth CBE FEng FRS |
| 1975 | Robert James Clayton CBE FEng |
| 1974 | James Henry Herbert Merriman CB OBE FEng |
| 1973 | Archibald George Milne |
| 1972 | Sir Eric Eastwood CBE FRS |
| 1971 | Professor John Flavell Coales CBE FEng FRS |
| 1970 | Henry George Nelson, second Lord Nelson of Stafford FEng |
| 1969 | David Edmondson |
| 1968 | Professor John Millar Meek CBE FEng |
| 1967 | Sir Stanley Brown CBE FEng |
| 1966 | John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FEng FRS |
| 1965 | Leonard Drucquer |
| 1964 | Olliver William Humphreys CBE |
| 1963 | Sir Albert Mumford KBE |
| 1962 | Cecil Thomas Melling CBE |
| 1961 | George Sail Campbell Lucas OBE |
| 1960 | Sir Hamish Maclaren KBE CB |
| 1959 | Sir Willis Jackson FRS |
| 1958 | Sidney Edward Goodall CBE |
| 1957 | Thomas Edward Goldup CBE |
| 1956 | Sir William Gordon Radley KCB CBE |
| 1955 | Sir George Nelson Bt |
| 1954 | Josiah Eccles CBE MM |
| 1953 | Harold Bishop CBE |
| 1952 | Colonel Bruce Hamer Leeson CBE TD |
| 1951 | Sir John Hacking |
| 1950 | Sir Archibald Gill |
| 1949 | Professor Eric Bailleul Moullin |
| 1948 | Thomas Graeme N Haldane |
| 1947 | Percy Good CBE FCGI |
| 1946 | Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti |
| 1945 | Dr Percy Dunsheath CBE |
| 1944 | Sir Harry Railing |
| 1943 | Colonel Sir Stanley Angwin KCMG KBE DSO MC TD |
| 1942 | Professor Cecil Lewis Fortescue OBE |
| 1941 | Sir Noel Ashbridge |
| 1940 | James Robert Beard CBE |
| 1939 | Johnsone Wright |
| 1938 | Sir Arthur P M Fleming CBE |
| 1937 | Lieut-Colonel Sir A George Lee OBE MC |
| 1936 | Henry Thomas Young |
| 1935 | John Macfarlane Kennedy OBE |
| 1934 | William Mundell Thornton OBE |
| 1933 | Philip Vassar Hunter CBE |
| 1932 | Edgar Walford Marchant |
| 1931 | John Muir Donaldson MC |
| 1930 | Clifford Copland Paterson OBE |
| 1929 | Colonel Sir Thomas Fortune Purves OBE(Mil) |
| 1928 | Lieut-Colonel Kenelm Edgcumbe |
| 1927 | Sir Archibald Page |
| 1926 | William Henry Eccles FRS |
| 1925 | Richard Alexander Chattock |
| 1924 | William Bradley Woodhouse |
| 1923 | Alexander Russell FRS |
| 1922 | Frank Gill OBE |
| 1921 | John Somerville Highfield |
| 1920 | Llewelyn Birchall Atkinson |
| 1919 | Roger Thomas Smith |
| 1918 | Charles Henry Wordingham CBE |
| 1917 | Charles Henry Wordingham CBE |
| 1916 | Charles Pratt Sparks CBE |
| 1915 | Charles Pratt Sparks CBE |
| 1914 | Sir John Francis Clerverton Snell GBE |
| 1913 | William Duddell CBE FRS |
| 1912 | William Duddell CBE FRS |
| 1911 | Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS |
| 1910 | Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS |
| 1909 | Gisbert Kapp |
| 1908 | William Morris Mordey |
| 1908 | Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS |
| 1907 | Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson, (Baron Kelvin of Largs)) OM GCVO FRS |
| 1906 | Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS |
| 1905 | Sir John Gavey CB |
| 1904 | Alexander Siemens |
| 1903 | Robert Kaye Gray |
| 1902 | Sir James Swinburne Bt FRS |
| 1901 | William Edward Langdon |
| 1900 | John Perry FRS |
| 1899 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS |
| 1898 | Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS |
| 1897 | Sir Henry Christopher Mance CIE |
| 1896 | John Hopkinson FRS |
| 1895 | Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS |
| 1894 | Alexander Siemens |
| 1893 | Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS |
| 1892 | William Edward Ayrton FRS |
| 1891 | Sir William Crookes OM FRS |
| 1890 | John Hopkinson FRS |
| 1889 | Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) |
| 1888 | Edward Graves |
| 1887 | Sir Charles Tilston Bright |
| 1886 | David Edward Hughes FRS |
| 1885 | Charles Ernest Paolo Della Diana Spagnoletti FRS |
| 1884 | William Grylls Adams FRS |
| 1883 | Willoughby Smith |
| 1882 | Major-General Charles Edmund Webber CB RE |
| 1881 | George Carey Foster FRS |
| 1880 | Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS |
| 1879 | Lieut-Colonel Sir John Underwood Bateman-Champain KCMG RE |
| 1878 | Sir Charles William Siemens FRS |
| 1877 | Sir Frederick Augustus Abel Bt KCB GCVO FRS |
| 1876 | Charles Vincent Walker FRS |
| 1875 | Latimer Clark FRS |
| 1874 | Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) OM GCVO FRS |
| 1873 | Frank Ives Scudamore CB |
| 1872 | Sir Charles William Siemens FRS |