Thursday 4 October 2012 | IET London: Savoy Place
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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
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| 1998 | Dr John Michael Taylor FRS FEng
| Engineering the Information Age
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| 1997 | David Jefferies CBE FEng
| Breaking the Mould: National Grid's Experience in Creating Value Through Independent Transmission
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| 1996 | Robert Hawley DSc PhD BSc FEng
| Leadership Challenges in an Engineering Environment
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| 1995 | John Parnaby CBE PhD DEng DSc DTech D Univ FEng
| Systems Engineering for Better Engineering
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| 1994 | Professor Sir David Evan Naunton Davies CBE DSc FEng FRS
| Defence Research - Duel Use of Dual Technology
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| 1993 | Alan Walter Rudge OBE PhD FEng FRS
| I'll be Seeing You; Multimedia Communications in the 21st Century
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| 1992 | Professor Peter John Lawrenson DSc FEng FRS
| Know-How as Product: Creation Explotation and National Benefit
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| 1991 | Brian William Manley BSc DIC FCGI FEng
| Learning our Lessons
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| 1990 | David Arthur Jones BSc PhD FEng
| Electrical Engineering; The Backbone of Society
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| 1989 | James Cadzow Smith CBE LLD FEng FRSE
| The Distribution and Utilisation of Electrical Power: A Renaissance for the 21st Century
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| 1988 | Thomas Bryce McCrirrick CBE DSc FEng
| Colour Television; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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| 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
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| 1985 | Admiral Sir Lindsay Bryson KCB FEng FRSE
| All at Sea
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| 1984 | Professor John Clifford West CBE FEng
| Forty Years in Control
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| 1983 | Maldwyn Noel John FEng
| Elecrticity Supply - Problems and Possibilities
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| 1982 | John Banks FEng
| The Engineer in the Middle Ground of Manufacture
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| 1981 | Sir Francis Tombs FEng
| MISunderstanding Nuclear Power
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| 1980 | Air Marshal Sir Herbert Durkin KBE CB
| Little Grains of Sand
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| 1979 | Professor John Brown CBE FEng
| Academic Strategy
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| 1978 | James Redmond FEng
| Broadcasting: The Developing Technology
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| 1977 | John McIntyre Ferguson CBE FEng
| The Twin Pillars of Engineering
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| 1976 | Eric Stuart Booth CBE FEng FRS
| The Electricity Supply Industry - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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| 1975 | Robert James Clayton CBE FEng
| Only Connect
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| 1974 | James Henry Herbert Merriman CB OBE FEng
| Engineering Innovation in a Service Industry: Post Office Telecommunications
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| 1973 | Archibald George Milne
| Distribution of Electricity
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| 1972 | Sir Eric Eastwood CBE FRS
| Radar Engineering; Progress and Prospect
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| 1971 | Professor John Flavell Coales CBE FEng FRS
| Computers and the Professional Engineer
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| 1970 | Henry George Nelson, second Lord Nelson of Stafford FEng
| The Impact of Advanced Technology on the Electrical Industry
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| 1969 | David Edmondson
| Electrical Manufacture - Today and Tomorrow
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| 1968 | Professor John Millar Meek CBE FEng
| The Vital Spark
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| 1967 | Sir Stanley Brown CBE FEng
| The Fascination of Electrical Power Engineering
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| 1966 | John Ashworth Ratcliffe CB CBE FEng FRS
| The Ionosphere and the Engineer
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| 1965 | Leonard Drucquer
| Some Thoughts on the British Electrical Industry
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| 1964 | Olliver William Humphreys CBE
| Science and Engineering
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| 1963 | Sir Albert Mumford KBE
| Communications in the Public Service of the United Kingdom
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| 1962 | Cecil Thomas Melling CBE
| The Engineer as Manager
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| 1961 | George Sail Campbell Lucas OBE
| Unity in the Electrical Industry
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| 1960 | Sir Hamish Maclaren KBE CB
| A Review of Electrical Engineering in the Royal Navy
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| 1959 | Sir Willis Jackson FRS
| The Making of Professional Engineers
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| 1958 | Sidney Edward Goodall CBE
| Electric Cables
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| 1957 | Thomas Edward Goldup CBE
| Background, Foreground and Horizon - The Radio Valve Industry in Prospect and Retrospect
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| 1956 | Sir William Gordon Radley KCB CBE
| Communication at Home and Overseas
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| 1955 | Sir George Nelson Bt
| No title given
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| 1954 | Josiah Eccles CBE MM
| No title given
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| 1953 | Harold Bishop CBE
| No title given
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| 1952 | Colonel Bruce Hamer Leeson CBE TD
| Electricity and Current Affairs
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| 1951 | Sir John Hacking
| No title given
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| 1950 | Sir Archibald Gill
| No title given
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| 1949 | Professor Eric Bailleul Moullin
| No title given
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| 1948 | Thomas Graeme N Haldane
| Means and Ends
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| 1947 | Percy Good CBE FCGI
| The History and Philosophy of Standardization
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| 1946 | Sir Vincent Ziani de Ferranti
| Towards the All-Electric Idea: A Review and a Forecast
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| 1945 | Dr Percy Dunsheath CBE
| British Electrical Engineers and the Second World War
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| 1944 | Sir Harry Railing
| No title given
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| 1943 | Colonel Sir Stanley Angwin KCMG KBE DSO MC TD
| No title given
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| 1942 | Professor Cecil Lewis Fortescue OBE
| Electrical Engineers and the Post-War Period
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| 1941 | Sir Noel Ashbridge
| No title given
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| 1940 | James Robert Beard CBE
| No title given
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| 1939 | Johnsone Wright
| No title given
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| 1938 | Sir Arthur P M Fleming CBE
| No title given
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| 1937 | Lieut-Colonel Sir A George Lee OBE MC
| No title given
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| 1936 | Henry Thomas Young
| No title given
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| 1935 | John Macfarlane Kennedy OBE
| No title given
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| 1934 | William Mundell Thornton OBE
| No title given
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| 1933 | Philip Vassar Hunter CBE
| No title given
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| 1932 | Edgar Walford Marchant
| No title given
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| 1931 | John Muir Donaldson MC
| No title given
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| 1930 | Clifford Copland Paterson OBE
| No title given
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| 1929 | Colonel Sir Thomas Fortune Purves OBE(Mil)
| No title given
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| 1928 | Lieut-Colonel Kenelm Edgcumbe
| No title given
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| 1927 | Sir Archibald Page
| No title given
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| 1926 | William Henry Eccles FRS
| No title given
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| 1925 | Richard Alexander Chattock
| No title given
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| 1924 | William Bradley Woodhouse
| No title given
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| 1923 | Alexander Russell FRS
| No title given
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| 1922 | Frank Gill OBE
| No title given
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| 1921 | John Somerville Highfield
| No title given
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| 1920 | Llewelyn Birchall Atkinson
| No title given
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| 1919 | Roger Thomas Smith
| No title given
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| 1918 | Charles Henry Wordingham CBE
| No title given
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| 1917 | Charles Henry Wordingham CBE
| No title given
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| 1916 | Charles Pratt Sparks CBE
| No title given
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| 1915 | Charles Pratt Sparks CBE
| No title given
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| 1914 | Sir John Francis Clerverton Snell GBE
| No title given
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| 1913 | William Duddell CBE FRS
| Pressure Rises
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| 1912 | William Duddell CBE FRS
| No title given
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| 1911 | Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS
| No title given
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| 1910 | Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti FRS
| Coal Conservation, Home Grown Food, and The Better Utilization of our Labour
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| 1909 | Gisbert Kapp
| No title given
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| 1908 | Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton CB FRS
| No title given
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| 1908 | William Morris Mordey
| No title given
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| 1907 | Lord Kelvin (Sir William Thomson, (Baron Kelvin of Largs)) OM GCVO FRS
| No title given
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| 1906 | Sir Richard Tetley Glazebrook KCB KCVO FRS
| No title given
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| 1905 | Sir John Gavey CB
| No title given
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| 1904 | Alexander Siemens
| No title given
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| 1903 | Robert Kaye Gray
| No title given
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| 1902 | Sir James Swinburne Bt FRS
| Some Limits in Heavy Electrical Engineering
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| 1901 | William Edward Langdon
| No title given
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| 1900 | John Perry FRS
| No title given
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Earlier speakers
See also
- View past speakers (2000 - )
- View a brief history of the lecture
