Institution of Civil Engineers - Former ICE Presidents

Former ICE Presidents

See also: List of Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Many of the profession’s greatest engineers have served as President of the ICE including:

  • Thomas Telford (1820-1834 – the post later became a biennial and then annual accolade)
  • James Walker (1835–45)
  • Sir John Rennie (1845–48)
  • Sir William Cubitt (1849–1851)
  • James Meadows Rendel (1852–53)
  • Robert Stephenson (1855–57)
  • Joseph Locke (1857–59)
  • John Robinson McClean (1863–65)
  • Sir John Fowler (1867)
  • Thomas Hawksley (1873)
  • William Henry Barlow (1880)
  • Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1882–84)
  • Sir John Coode (1889–91)
  • Sir John Wolfe-Barry (1898)
  • Sir Guilford Lindsey Molesworth (1905)
  • Sir Alexander Binnie (1906)
  • Sir Basil Mott (1925)
  • Sir Alexander Gibb (1937)
  • Sir William Halcrow (1946–47)

One of Britain's greatest engineers, Isambard Kingdom Brunel died before he could take up the post (he was vice-president from 1850).

Presidents have been blogging since Gordon Masterton's year (2005 to 2006). The blog of the current president is on the web site of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

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