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Honorary Fellows

Honorary Fellows of the Institution including those of the IERE, IMfgE and the IIE from 1873.

§ Present Honorary Fellow elected under category of Bye-Law 8(b)

* Denotes Honorary Fellow of the IERE

† Denotes Honorary Fellow of the IMfgE

+ Denotes Honorary Fellow of the IIE

2012		Professor Alf Adams FRS
2012		Dr N F Chin BSc MSc PhD
2012		Dr Irwin Mark Jacobs
2011		Professor Sir John O’Reilly DSc FREng FLSW
2011		Mme Li Mofang
2011		Mr John A Armitt CBE FREng
2010		Professor Kel Fidler
2010		Reverend Stuart Poole
2010		Professor Sir Michael Brady
2009		Professor J E Midwinter OBE FREng FRS PhD DSc
2009		Mme Deng Nan
2009		Sir C K Chow
2008		Sir David Brown
2008		Mr Ratan N Tata
2007		Mr Richard Lampman FREng
2007		Sir Terence Matthews OBE FREng PEng
2006		Professor M J H Sterling FREng
2006	+	The Rt Hon Tony Benn
2006	+	Brigadier R W A Lonsdale
2006	+	Mr P F Wason
2005		Professor Meng Hwa Er PPA BEng PhD PEng
2005		Sir Peter Gershon CBE FREng MA Hon DTech
2005	+	Mrs L C A Wright
2004		Dr I D Nussey OBE FREng MA PhD
2004		Sir Peter Williams CBE FRS FREng MA PhD
2003		Lord Sainsbury of Turville
2003	+	Dr R Hawley CBE DSc FRSE
2003	+	Mr J W Prentice
2003	+	Dr M Sanderson
2003	+	The Rt Hon Lord Trefgarne PC
2002		Sir David Davies CBE FRS FREng
2002		Mr N R Narayana Murthy BE MTech
2001		Mr D G Jefferies CBE FREng
2001		Dr R K Saxby BEng DEng
2001	+	Mrs A Bailey
2000		Dr J C Williams OBE FREng BSc(Eng)
2000		Sir Alan Rudge CBE FREng FRS
2000	+	Mr S Gillibrand CBE
2000	+	Mr J Golding OBE
1999		Professor C W Davidson BSc PhD
1999		Dr B W Manley CBE FREng DIC FCGI
1998		Dr T Berners Lee OBE
1998		Mr M N John BSc FEng
1998		Mr G J Lomer CBE MA FEng
1998	+	Mr B Brook-Partridge
1998	+	Dr A F L Deeson
1998	+	Mr P S Dhillon
1998	+	Mr E Greenwood
1998	+	Mr D Guy
1998	+	Dr J John
1998	+	The Rt Hon The Baroness Platt of Writtle
1998	+	Mr V A Tester
1997		Dr J Porteous DL BSc DEng FEng
1997		Professor K Simonyi MS PhD DSc
1997	+	Mr A Gingell
1996		Professor A N Broers BA PhD FRS FEng
1996		Sir John Fairclough BSc(Tech) FEng
1996	+	Mr A J Kenward MBE BSc
1995		Dr T B McCrirrick CBE FEng
1995		Professor G R Slemon PhD DSc(Eng)
1995	+	Mr I M Barnes
1994		Professor Sir Eric Ash CBE FRS FEng
1994		Dato’Ir Yee Cheong Lee DPMP KMN BE
1994		Professor M H Carpentier
1994	+	Mr A R Duff
1994	+	Miss P L Hodges OBE
1994	+	Mr A G Smith
1993		Professor P J Clarricoats PhD DSc(Eng) FRS FEng
1993		Professor E R Laithwaite PhD DSc
1992		Professor J C West CBE PhD DSc FEng
1992		Professor J Podoski MBE DSc
1992	+	Dr N W Bertenshaw BSc DTech HonDSc
1992	+	Mr C Evans
1992	+	Mr F H MacKay MA
1992	+	Mr P J O'Brien
1992	+	Mr M Rucklidge
1991		The Rt Hon The Lord Tombs of Brailles BSc DSc FEng
1991		Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson KCB DSc(Eng) FRSE FEng
1991	†	Sir Anthony Gill FEng
1991	†	Sir John Parnaby CBE BSc PhD DTech FEng
1991	+	Mr R L Aston
1991	+	Sir Kenneth Eaton GBE KCB FREng
1991	+	Mr J Lyons
1991	+	Mr G R C McDowell CBE BSc
1990		Sir William Barlow KB BScTech DSc FEng
1990		Sir Godfrey Hounsfield KB CBE DipEE FRS
1990		Professor John H Westcott DSc(Eng) PhD DIC FRS FEng
1989		Sir James Redmond FEng
1989		Professor Sir Samuel Curran PhD DSc FEng FRS
1989	†	Ronald Maxwell Webb
1989	+	Mr C W Dennay
1989	+	Mr G M Hutchinson
1989	+	The Lord Mottistone
1988		Professor T E Allibone CBE DSc FEng FRS
1988		Sir George Macfarlane CB BSc FEng
1988	*	Francis Edgar Jones MBE DSc FEng FRS
1988	†	Professor John Leonard Burbidge OBE
1988	†	A R R Goldsmith VRD
1988	†	Sir Denis Rooke CBE FRS FEng
1988	+	Mr W S Churchill
1988	+	Mr R T Sarich
1987	§	HRH The Princess Royal GCVO
1987		Professor William Ewart John Farvis CBE BSc BSc(Eng) FRSE
1987		Sir Robert Telford CBE DL MA FEng
1987	*	Professor Alexander Lamb Cullen OBE DSc(Eng) FEng FRS
1987	+	Dr T B McCrirrick CBE FREng
1986		Eric Stuart Booth CBE MEng DTech FEng FRS
1986		Arthur Harry Young DFH
1986	*	HRH The Duke of Kent KG GCMG GCVO ADC
1986	†	Sir Francis Tombs FEng
1986	+	Professor J Brown CBE FREng
1985		Professor John Flavell Coales CBE MA HonDEng FEng FRS
1985		Sir Kenneth Corfield FEng
1985	*	Harry Edward Drew CB HonCGIA
1984		The Rt Hon The Viscount Caldecote DSc MA FEng
1984		Sir James Lighthill FRS
1984		Sir Duncan McDonald CBE DSc BSc FHWC FEng FRSE
1983		The Rt Hon Lord Nelson of Stafford MA HonDSc HonLLD FEng
1983		Cedric Harald Flurscheim MA FEng
1983	*	Sir Ieuan Maddock CB OBE FEng FRS
1983	*	Professor William Alexander Gambling PhD DSc FEng FRS
1983	†	The Lord Gregson DL
1983	+	The Lord Gregson FREng DL
1982		Sir Robert Clayton CBE MA DSc(Eng) FEng
1982		Geoffrey F Kennedy MA
1982	*	Professor Reginald Victor Jones CB CBE FRS
1982	+	Mr W G Bailey
1982	+	Mr J Ferguson CBE FEng
1982	+	Sir Alec Morris
1982	+	Mr K F So
1982	+	Mr G Timberlake
1981	§	HRH The Prince of Wales KG KT GCB
1981		James Henry H Merriman CB OBE MSc FKC DSc FEng
1981		Sir John Hill BSc PhD
1981	†	Professor Norman Alfred Dudley CBE
1980		Sir Albert Mumford KBE BSc(Eng) FQMC
1980		Professor Maurice George Say PhD MSc FRSE
1980	†	George Stephen Brosan CBE DFH TD PhD
1980	†	Dennis Hamer Goss
1980	†	Ronald George Hooker CBE FEng
1980	†	Dr H Peter Jost CBE
1979		Sir Eric Eastwood CBE DSc(Hon) PhD FRS
1979		Professor Sir Hermann Bondi KCB FRAS FRS
1979	†	Rt Hon Earl of Halsbury FRS FEng
1979	†	Professor Franz Keonigsberger
1979	†	Alan Gabriel Jones MBE
1979	+	Lord Hesketh
1978		C Lester Hogan BS MS MA PhD DSc DEng
1978		Cecil Thomas Melling CBE MScTech
1978		Professor Gordon Hindie Rawcliffe MA DSc DTech FRS
1978	*	John Leslie Langham Thompson FEng
1978	*	Graham Douglas Clifford CMG
1978	†	Sir Eric Mensforth CBE DL FEng
1978	+	Mr F Shaw FREng
1977		John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE MA FRS
1977		Professor John Samuel Forrest DSc MA FRS
1977	†	Sir Walter Puckey
1976	§	HRH The Duke of Kent CGMG GCVO ADC
1976		Pierre R R Aigrain
1976	†	Anne G Shaw CBE
1976	+	Major T Dodd
1975		Professor H B G Casimir PhD
1975		Sir Brian Flowers FRS
1975		Sir Arnold Hall FRS
1975	*	HRH The Prince of Wales KG
1975	†	Walter Frederick Woodford OBE
1974		Wilfred Bennett Lewis CC CBE FRSC PhD FRS
1974		The Rt Hon Lord Penney of East Hendred OM KBE MA PhD DSc FRS
1974	*	Dr Wernher von Braun
1974	†	A E Clifford
1974	†	A L Stuchbery CBE
1974	+	Sir Cyril English
1973		Sir Ben Lewis Barnett KBE CB MC MA
1972		George Sail C Lucas OBE HonDTech FCGI
1972	§	The Rt Hon Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone QC
1972	†	J H Winskill
1972	†	D Lion Cachet
1972	+	Mr W B K Ellis BSc
1971		Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti MC
1971		The Rt Hon Lord Hinton of Bankside KBE MA DSc FRS
1971	*	Maurice Jules Henry Ponte DSc
1971	*	Professor Dr Ing E h Walter Bruch
1971	*	Professor Harold Monteagle Barlow PhD FRS
1971	†	W Core
1971	†	W Eccles
1971	†	E Paton
1971	+	Mr D J Hardcastle
1970		Sir Hamish Duncan MacLaren KBE CB DFC (and bar) LLD DSc
1970	†	W E Park
1969		Sir William Gordon Radley KCB CBE PhD
1969	†	Harold Burke
1968		The Rt Hon Lord Jackson of Burnley DSc DEng LLD FRS
1968	*	Leslie Herbert Bedford CBE MA(Cantab) BSc(Eng)
1968	†	James Morgan Steer
1967		Sir Josiah Eccles CBE DSc
1967		Professor Sir Bernard Lovell OBE FRS
1967	†	Dr W A J Chapman
1967	†	Dr Lillian M Gilbreth
1966		Sir Harold Bishop CBE BSc(Eng) FCGI
1966	*	William Edward Miller MA(Cantab)
1965		Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG PC GCB OM GCSI GCVO DSO LLD DCL DSc FRS
1965	*	Admiral of the Fleet The Rt Hon Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG PC GCB OM GCSI GCVO DSO LLD DCL DSc FRS
1964		Percy Dunsheath CBE MA DSc(Eng) LLD
1964	*	Sir Gordon Radley KCB CBE PhD
1964	†	R H Arbuckle
1964	+	Sir Bernard Lovell
1963		The Rt Hon Lord Fleck of Saltcoats KBE DSc LLD FRS
1963		Professor Eric Bailleul Moullin MA ScD LLD
1963	†	E Percy Edwards
1962		Sir John Hacking
1961		The Rt Hon Lord Nelson of Stafford DSc(Eng)
1961	†	G Ronald Pryor
1960		Richard Lankaster Hearn BASc DEng LLD
1960		Colonel Bruce Hamer Leeson CBE TD
1959		Charles William Spiers FCGI JP
1959	*	Eric Kirkham Cole CBE
1959	*	Vladimir Kosma Zworykin DSc
1958		Henry Thomas Young
1957		Sir Noel Ashbridge BSc(Eng)
1957		Brigadier Sir Harold Hartley GCVO CBE MC MA FRS
1956		Colnel Sir Stanley Angwin KCMG KBE DSO MC TD DSc(Eng)
1956	*	Professor George William Osborne Howe DSc LLD
1956	†	H E Honer
1955		HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh KG PC KT GBE FRS
1955		James Robert Beard CBE MSc
1954		Ernest Leete
1954	†	E W Hancock MBE
1953		Sir Harry Railing DEng
1953	*	Sir Noel Ashbridge BSc
1953	†	Dr H Schofield CBE
1952		Sir Edward V Appleton GBE KCB MA DSc LLD FRS
1952		Sir Arthur Percy M Fleming CBE DEng LLD
1951		Philip Vassar Hunter CBE
1951	*	HRH Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh KG KT PC FRS
1951	†	J D Scaife
1951	†	J A Hannay
1950		Sir Edgar Walford Marchant DSc
1950	†	J Finlay MBE
1949		John Muir Donaldson MC
1949	*	Hubert Leslie McMichael
1949	†	F Grover
1948		Colonel Sir Thomas F Purves OBE
1948		Admiral of the Fleet Sir John H D Cunningham GCB MVO
1948	†	H A Hartley
1947		Sir John Macfarlane Kennedy OBE
1947	†	T Fraser CBE
1947	†	Dr G Schlesinger
1946		The Rt Hon The Earl Of Mount Edgcumbe TD
1945		John Somerville Highfield
1945	†	Sir Ernest Lemon OBE
1944		Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk
1944	*	Brigadier David Sarnoff
1944	*	Sydney Alfred Hurren OBE MC
1943	*	Sir Ernest Thomas Fisk
1942		General The Hon A G L McNaughton CB CMG CH DSO MSc LLD DCL
1942		The Rt Hon Lord Hankey PC GCB GCMG GCVO FRS
1942	*	Horace William Gambrell
1942	*	James Nelson
1942	*	Harrie John King
1941		The Rt Hon Sir Andrew Rae Duncan GBE MA LLD
1941	*	Yvonne Margaret Dyson Cooper
1941	†	Sir Charles Craven OBE
1940		Roger Thomas Smith BSc
1940	*	Sir Louis Sterling DLit
1939		Sir Archibald Page
1938		Sir Frank Gill KCMG OBE
1938	†	Rt Hon Viscount Nuffield CBE
1937		Alexander Russell MA DSc LLD FRS
1936		Sir John Francis Cleverton Snell GBE
1936	†	Rt Hon Lord Semphill AFC
1936	†	O Harmer
1935		The Rt Hon Lord Hirst of Witton
1935	*	Norman William McLachlan DSc
1934		René Thury
1933		Llewelyn B Atkinson
1933	*	Harry John Barton-Chapple
1933	†	Sir Herbert Austin KBE
1932		William Morris Mordey
1931		Sir William Henry Bragg OM KBE MA DSc FRS
1930		Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO DSc FRS
1929	†	J M Neston
1927		Thomas Alva Edison
1926		His Excellency The Marchese Marconi GCVO DSc
1926	*	Young Wright Pilkington Evans
1925		Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti DSc FRS
1924		Sir Oliver Lodge DSc FRS
1924	†	Sir Alfred Herbert KBE
1923		Colonel Rookes Evelyn B Crompton CB FRS
1922		Professor Sir John Ambrose Fleming MA DSc FRS
1921		The Rt Hon Lord Southborough PC GCB GCMG GCVO KCSI
1920		Professor André Blondel
1919		Professor Hendrick Lorentz
1918		Professor Arthur E Kennelly DSc
1917		Professor Augusto Righi
1916		Professor George Carey Foster LLD DSc FRS
1915		Maurice Leblanc
1914		Professor Eric Gerard
1913		Professor Alexander Graham Bell
1912		Charles Ernest Spagnoletti
1909		The Hon Sir Charles Algernon Parsons OM KCB FRS
1908		Oliver Heaviside FRS
1907		Sir Joseph John Thomson OM MA FRS
1904		Elihu Thomson DSc
1904		Major General Charles E Webber CB RE
1902		Professor Antonio Pacinotti
1901		Eleuthere E N Mascart
1900		Sir Joseph Wilson Swan DSc FRS
1899		The Rt Hon Lord Kelvin OM GCVO FRS
1898		Henry Wilde DSc DCL FRS
1897		Dr Heinrich von Stephen
1891		Jacob Brett
1884		Edward Davy MRCS
1881		Adolphe Cochery
1877		Sir William Fothergill Cooke
1876		Frank Ives Scudamore CB
1875		Samuel Carter
1873		Sir George Biddel Airy KCB FRS
1873		General Sir Edward Sabine RA KCB FRS
1873		Professor Wilhelm Weber FRS