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Past speakers (1900 - 1999)

This section provides a list of the past speakers at this Prestige Lecture. 

 

Year

Speaker

Title of lecture

Media

1999

Dr Malcolm William Kennedy FREng

 

Communicating Knowledge in the Real World

 

 
1998

Dr John Michael Taylor FRS FEng

 

Engineering the Information Age

 

 
1997

David Jefferies CBE FEng

 

Breaking the Mould: National Grid's Experience in Creating Value Through Independent Transmission

 

 
1996

Robert Hawley DSc PhD BSc FEng

 

Leadership Challenges in an Engineering Environment

 

 
1995

John Parnaby CBE PhD DEng DSc DTech D Univ FEng

 

Systems Engineering for Better Engineering

 

 
1994

Professor Sir David Evan Naunton Davies CBE DSc FEng FRS

 

Defence Research - Duel Use of Dual Technology

 

 
1993

Alan Walter Rudge OBE PhD FEng FRS

 

I'll be Seeing You; Multimedia Communications in the 21st Century

 

 
1992

Professor Peter John Lawrenson DSc FEng FRS

 

Know-How as Product: Creation Explotation and National Benefit

 

 
1991

Brian William Manley BSc DIC FCGI FEng

 

Learning our Lessons

 

 
1990

David Arthur Jones BSc PhD FEng

 

Electrical Engineering; The Backbone of Society

 

 
1989

James Cadzow Smith CBE LLD FEng FRSE

 

The Distribution and Utilisation of Electrical Power: A Renaissance for the 21st Century

 

 
1988

Thomas Bryce McCrirrick CBE DSc FEng

 

Colour Television; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

 

 
1987

Professor Eric Albert Ash CBE DSc FEng FRS

 

Higher Education, Industry and Government - New Rules for a Menage a Trois

 

Paper (PDF)
1986

Dr Geoffrey Thomas Shepherd CBE

 

Waste Not, Want Not

 

 
1985

Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson KCB FEng FRSE

 

All at Sea

 

 
1984

Professor John Clifford West CBE FEng

 

Forty Years in Control

 

 
1983

Maldwyn Noel John FEng

 

Elecrticity Supply - Problems and Possibilities

 

 
1982

John Banks FEng

 

The Engineer in the Middle Ground of Manufacture

 

 
1981

Sir Francis Tombs FEng

 

MISunderstanding Nuclear Power

 

 
1980

Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin KBE CB

 

Little Grains of Sand

 

 
1979

Professor John Brown CBE FEng

 

Academic Strategy

 

 
1978

James Redmond FEng

 

Broadcasting: The Developing Technology

 

 
1977

John McIntyre Ferguson CBE FEng

 

The Twin Pillars of Engineering

 

 
1976

Eric Stuart Booth CBE FEng FRS

 

The Electricity Supply Industry - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

 

 
1975

Robert James Clayton CBE FEng

 

Only Connect

 

 
1974

James Henry Herbert Merriman CB OBE FEng

 

Engineering Innovation in a Service Industry: Post Office Telecommunications

 

 
1973

Archibald George Milne

 

Distribution of Electricity

 

 
1972

Sir Eric Eastwood CBE FRS

 

Radar Engineering; Progress and Prospect

 

 
1971

Professor John Flavell Coales CBE FEng FRS

 

Computers and the Professional Engineer

 

 
1970

Henry George Nelson, second Lord Nelson of Stafford FEng

 

The Impact of Advanced Technology on the Electrical Industry

 

 
1969

David Edmondson

 

Electrical Manufacture - Today and Tomorrow

 

 
1968

Professor John Millar Meek CBE FEng

 

The Vital Spark

 

 
1967

Sir Stanley Brown CBE FEng

 

The Fascination of Electrical Power Engineering

 

 
1966

John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FEng FRS

 

The Ionosphere and the Engineer

 

 
1965

Leonard Drucquer

 

Some Thoughts on the British Electrical Industry

 

 
1964

Olliver William Humphreys CBE

 

Science and Engineering

 

 
1963

Sir Albert Mumford KBE

 

Communications in the Public Service of the United Kingdom

 

 
1962

Cecil Thomas Melling CBE

 

The Engineer as Manager

 

 
1961

George Sail Campbell Lucas OBE

 

Unity in the Electrical Industry

 

 
1960

Sir Hamish Maclaren KBE CB

 

A Review of Electrical Engineering in the Royal Navy

 

 
1959

Sir Willis Jackson FRS

 

The Making of Professional Engineers

 

 
1958

Sidney Edward Goodall CBE

 

Electric Cables

 

 
1957

Thomas Edward Goldup CBE

 

Background, Foreground and Horizon - The Radio Valve Industry in Prospect and Retrospect

 

 
1956

Sir William Gordon Radley KCB CBE

 

Communication at Home and Overseas

 

 
1955

Sir George Nelson Bt

 

No title given

 

 
1954

Josiah Eccles CBE MM

 

No title given

 

 
1953

Harold Bishop CBE

 

No title given

 

 
1952

Colonel Bruce Hamer Leeson CBE TD

 

Electricity and Current Affairs

 

 
1951

Sir John Hacking

 

No title given

 

 
1950

Sir Archibald Gill

 

No title given

 

 
1949

Professor Eric Bailleul Moullin

 

No title given

 

 
1948

Thomas Graeme N Haldane

 

Means and Ends

 

 
1947

Percy Good CBE FCGI

 

The History and Philosophy of Standardization

 

 
1946

Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti

 

Towards the All-Electric Idea: A Review and a Forecast

 

 
1945

Dr Percy Dunsheath CBE

 

British Electrical Engineers and the Second World War

 

 
1944

Sir Harry Railing

 

No title given

 

 
1943

Colonel Sir Stanley Angwin KCMG KBE DSO MC TD

 

No title given

 

 
1942

Professor Cecil Lewis Fortescue OBE

 

Electrical Engineers and the Post-War Period

 

 
1941

Sir Noel Ashbridge

 

No title given

 

 
1940

James Robert Beard CBE

 

No title given

 

 
1939

Johnsone Wright

 

No title given

 

 
1938

Sir Arthur P M Fleming CBE

 

No title given

 

 
1937

Lieut-Colonel Sir A George Lee OBE MC

 

No title given

 

 
1936

Henry Thomas Young

 

No title given

 

 
1935

John Macfarlane Kennedy OBE

 

No title given

 

 
1934

William Mundell Thornton OBE

 

No title given

 

 
1933

Philip Vassar Hunter CBE

 

No title given

 

 
1932

Edgar Walford Marchant

 

No title given

 

 
1931

John Muir Donaldson MC

 

No title given

 

 
1930

Clifford Copland Paterson OBE

 

No title given

 

 
1929

Colonel Sir Thomas Fortune Purves OBE(Mil)

 

No title given

 

 
1928

Lieut-Colonel Kenelm Edgcumbe

 

No title given

 

 
1927

Sir Archibald Page

 

No title given

 

 
1926

William Henry Eccles FRS

 

No title given

 

 
1925

Richard Alexander Chattock

 

No title given

 

 
1924

William Bradley Woodhouse

 

No title given

 

 
1923

Alexander Russell FRS

 

No title given

 

 
1922

Frank Gill OBE

 

No title given

 

 
1921

John Somerville Highfield

 

No title given

 

 
1920

Llewelyn Birchall Atkinson

 

No title given

 

 
1919

Roger Thomas Smith

 

No title given

 

 
1918

Charles Henry Wordingham CBE

 

No title given

 

 
1917

Charles Henry Wordingham CBE

 

No title given

 

 
1916

Charles Pratt Sparks CBE

 

No title given

 

 
1915

Charles Pratt Sparks CBE

 

No title given

 

 
1914

Sir John Francis Clerverton Snell GBE

 

No title given

 

 
1913

William Duddell CBE FRS

 

Pressure Rises

 

 
1912

William Duddell CBE FRS

 

No title given

 

 
1911

Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS

 

No title given

 

 
1910

Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS

 

Coal Conservation, Home Grown Food, and The Better Utilization of our Labour

 

 
1909

Gisbert Kapp

 

No title given

 

 
1908

Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS

 

No title given

 

 
1908

William Morris Mordey

 

No title given

 

 
1907

Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson, (Baron Kelvin of Largs)) OM GCVO FRS

 

No title given

 

 
1906

Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS

 

No title given

 

 
1905

Sir John Gavey CB

 

No title given

 

 
1904

Alexander Siemens

 

No title given

 

 
1903

Robert Kaye Gray

 

No title given

 

 
1902

Sir James Swinburne Bt FRS

 

Some Limits in Heavy Electrical Engineering

 

 
1901

William Edward Langdon

 

No title given

 

 
1900

John Perry FRS

 

No title given

 

 

 

 

Earlier speakers 

 

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