This is a list of presidents of the Institution of Electrical Engineers from its formation in 1871 until 2005, the date of amalgamation with the Institution of Incorporated Engineers to form the Institution of Engineering and Technology. Prior to 1889 the Institution was known as the Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians.
List of presidents
Source: IET Archives
1871–1899
- 1872Sir Charles William Siemens FRS
- 1873Frank Ives Scudamore CB
- 1874Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) OM GCVO FRS
- 1875Latimer Clark FRS
- 1876Charles Vincent Walker FRS
- 1877Sir Frederick Augustus Abel Bt KCB GCVO FRS
- 1878Sir Charles William Siemens FRS (2nd term)
- 1879Lieut-Colonel Sir John Underwood Bateman-Champain KCMG RE
- 1880Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS
- 1881George Carey Foster FRS
- 1882Major-General Charles Edmund Webber CB RE
- 1883Willoughby Smith
- 1884William Grylls Adams FRS
- 1885Charles Ernest Paolo Della Diana Spagnoletti
- 1886David Edward Hughes FRS
- 1887Sir Charles Tilston Bright
- 1888Edward Graves
- 1889Sir William Thomson (Baron Kelvin of Largs) OM GCVO FRS (2nd term)
- 1890John Hopkinson FRS
- 1891Sir William Crookes OM FRS
- 1892William Edward Ayrton FRS
- 1893Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS (2nd term)
- 1894Alexander Siemens
- 1895Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS
- 1896John Hopkinson FRS (2nd term)
- 1897Sir Henry Christopher Mance CIE
- 1898Sir Joseph Wilson Swan FRS
- 1899Silvanus Phillips Thompson FRS
1900–1999
- 1900John Perry FRS
- 1901William Edward Langdon
- 1902Sir James Swinburne Bt FRS
- 1903Robert Kaye Gray
- 1904Alexander Siemens (2nd term)
- 1905Sir John Gavey CB
- 1906Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS
- 1907Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson, (Baron Kelvin of Largs)) OM GCVO FRS (3rd term)
- 1908Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS
- 1908William Morris Mordey
- 1909Gisbert Kapp
- 1910–11 Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS
- 1912–13 William Duddell CBE FRS
- 1914Sir John Francis Cleverton Snell GBE
- 1915–16 Charles Pratt Sparks CBE
- 1917–18 Charles Henry Wordingham CBE
- 1919Roger Thomas Smith
- 1920Llewelyn Birchall Atkinson
- 1921John Somerville Highfield
- 1922Frank Gill OBE
- 1923Alexander Russell FRS
- 1924William Bradley Woodhouse
- 1925Richard Alexander Chattock
- 1926William Henry Eccles FRS
- 1927Sir Archibald Page
- 1928Lieut-Colonel Kenelm Edgcumbe
- 1929Colonel Sir Thomas Fortune Purves OBE(Mil)
- 1930Clifford Copland Paterson OBE
- 1931John Muir Donaldson MC
- 1932Edgar Walford Marchant
- 1933Philip Vassar Hunter CBE
- 1934William Mundell Thornton OBE
- 1935John Macfarlane Kennedy OBE
- 1936Henry Thomas Young
- 1937Lieut-Colonel Sir A George Lee OBE MC
- 1938Sir Arthur P M Fleming CBE
- 1939Johnsone Wright
- 1940James Robert Beard CBE
- 1941Sir Noel Ashbridge
- 1942Professor Cecil Lewis Fortescue OBE
- 1943Colonel Sir Stanley Angwin KCMG KBE DSO MC TD
- 1944Sir Harry Railing
- 1945Dr Percy Dunsheath CBE
- 1946Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti
- 1947Percy Good CBE FCGI
- 1948Thomas Graeme N Haldane
- 1949Professor Eric Bailleul Moullin
- 1950Sir Archibald Gill
- 1951Sir John Hacking
- 1952Colonel Bruce Hamer Leeson CBE TD
- 1953Harold Bishop CBE
- 1954Josiah Eccles CBE MM
- 1955Sir George Nelson Bt
- 1956Sir William Gordon Radley KCB CBE
- 1957Thomas Edward Goldup CBE
- 1958Sidney Edward Goodall CBE
- 1959Sir Willis Jackson FRS
- 1960Sir Hamish Maclaren KBE CB
- 1961George Sail Campbell Lucas OBE
- 1962Cecil Thomas Melling CBE
- 1963Sir Albert Mumford KBE
- 1964Olliver William Humphreys CBE
- 1965Leonard Drucquer
- 1966John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FEng FRS
- 1967Sir Stanley Brown CBE FEng
- 1968Professor John Millar Meek CBE FEng
- 1969David Edmondson
- 1970Henry George Nelson, Lord Nelson of Stafford FEng
- 1971Professor John Flavell Coales CBE FEng FRS
- 1972Sir Eric Eastwood CBE FRS
- 1973Archibald George Milne
- 1974James Henry Herbert Merriman CB OBE FEng
- 1975Robert James Clayton CBE FEng
- 1976Eric Stuart Booth CBE FEng FRS
- 1977John McIntyre Ferguson CBE FEng
- 1978James Redmond FEng
- 1979Professor John Brown CBE FEng
- 1980Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin KBE CB
- 1981Sir Francis Tombs FEng
- 1982John Banks FEng
- 1983Maldwyn Noel John FEng
- 1984Professor John Clifford West CBE FEng
- 1985Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson KCB FEng FRSE
- 1986Dr Geoffrey Thomas Shepherd CBE
- 1987Professor Eric Albert Ash CBE DSc FEng FRS
- 1988Thomas Bryce McCrirrick CBE DSc FEng
- 1989James Cadzow Smith CBE LLD FEng FRSE
- 1990David Arthur Jones BSc PhD FEng
- 1991Brian William Manley BSc DIC FCGI FEng
- 1992Professor Peter John Lawrenson DSc FEng FRS
- 1993Alan Walter Rudge OBE PhD FEng FRS
- 1994Professor Sir David Evan Naunton Davies CBE DSc FEng FRS
- 1995John Parnaby CBE PhD DEng DSc DTech D Univ FEng
- 1996Robert Hawley DSc PhD BSc FEng
- 1997David Jefferies CBE FEng
- 1998Dr John Michael Taylor FRS FEng
- 1999Dr Malcolm William Kennedy FREng
2000–2005
- 2000Professor John Edwin Midwinter FREng FRS
- 2001Professor Brian Mellitt FREng DIC
- 2002Professor Michael John Howard Sterling FREng
- 2003Sir David Brown FREng CEng BSc DMS
- 2004Professor John O'Reilly FREng
- 2005Sir John Chisholm FREng CEng (last president)
For presidents from 2005–present, see Presidents of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
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