Iron and Steel Institute

The Iron and Steel Institute was an English association organized by the iron trade of the north of England. Its object was the discussion of practical and scientific questions connected with the manufacture of iron and steel.

History

The first meeting of the institute took place in London, February 25, 1869. There were two general meetings each year, one in May, in London, and one in autumn in other cities, not always in Great Britain, for the institute has met in Paris, Vienna, Brussels, Düsseldorf and New York. Beginning in 1874 it annually presented the Bessemer Gold Medal, for some invention or notable paper.

The institute published the semi-annual Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute, containing original papers and abstracts from other publications.

In 1974, the Iron and Steel Institute merged into the Institute of Metals. The Institute of Metals then merged in 1993 with the Institute of Ceramics and the Plastics and Rubber Institute to form the Institute of Materials (IoM). The IoM and the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy merged in June 2002, becoming the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Presidents

Presidents of the institute were:

• 1869-71 William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire
• 1871-73 Sir Henry Bessemer
• 1873-75 Sir Lowthian Bell Bt FRS
• 1875-77 William Menelaus
• 1877-79 Sir C William Siemens FRS
• 1879-81 Edward Williams
• 1881-83 Josiah Timmis Smith
• 1883-85 Rt Hon Sir Bernard Samuelson Bt FRS
• 1885-87 John Percy MD FRS
• 1887-89 Daniel Adamson
• 1889-91 The Rt Hon Lord Airedale of Gledhow DSc
• 1891-93 Sir Frederick Augustus Abel Bt GVCO KCB FRS
• 1893-95 Edward Windsor Richards
• 1895-97 Sir David Dale Bt DCL
• 1897-99 Edward Pritchard Martin
• 1899-1901 Sir William Chandler Roberts-Austen KCB DCL FRS
• 1901-03 William Whitwell
• 1903-05 Andrew Carnegie LLD
• 1905-07 Sir Robert Abbott Hadfield Bt DSc FRS
• 1907-10 Sir Hugh Bell Bt CD DCL LLD
• 1910-12 Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire KG
• 1912-14 Arthur Cooper LLD
• 1914-15 Adolphe Greiner DSc
• 1916-18 Rt Hon Lord Invernairn of Strathnairn
• 1918-20 C P Eugene Schneider DSc
• 1920-22 John Edward Stead DSc DMet FRS
• 1922-24 Francis Samuelson
• 1924-25 Sir William Ellis GBE DENG
• 1925-26 Sir Frederick Mills Bt DL
• 1926-27 Sir W Peter Rylands JP
• 1927-28 Frank William Harbord CBE
• 1928-29 Benjamin Talbot
• 1929-31 Henry Louis MA DSc
• 1931-33 Col Sir W Charles Wright Bt KBE CB
• 1933-35 William R Lysaght CBE
• 1935-37 Sir Harold Carpenter FRS
• 1937-38 Alfred Hutchinson MA
• 1938-40 The Rt Hon The Earl of Dudley DC
• 1940-42 Sir John Craig CBE DL
• 1942-44 James Henderson
• 1944-46 Arthur Dorman
• 1946-48 Dr Cecil Henry Desch DSc PhD LLD FRS
• 1948-50 Sir Andrew McCance LLD DSc FRS
• 1950-51 James Robert Menzies-Wilson OBE
• 1951-52 Richard Mather BMet
• 1952-53 Captain Hector Leighton Davies CBE JP
• 1953-54 James Mitchell CBE
• 1954-55 The Hon Richard Glynne Lyttelton
• 1955-56 Sir Charles Bruce-Gardner Bt
• 1956-57 Herbert Henry Burton CBE DMet
• 1957-58 Arnold Hugo Ingen-Housz
• 1958-59 Charles Reginald Wheeler CBE
• 1959-60 William Barr OBE
• 1960-61 William Frederick Cartwright DL
• 1961-62 Sir Charles Goodeve OBE DSc FRS
• 1962-63 Maurice Alberic Fiennes
• 1963-64 Frank Bernard George
• 1964-65 Frank Henry Saniter OBE DSc (Tech) BENG
• 1965-66 William Frederick Gilbertson
• 1966-67 Sir Douglas Bruce-Gardner Bt
• 1967-68 Norman E Jones CMG DSc ASTC
• 1968-69 Dr John Hugh Chesters OBE FRS
• 1969-70 Niall Campbell Macdiarmid
• 1970-71 Norman Cecil Lake CBE
• 1971-72 Thomas Rae Craig CBE TD
• 1972-73 Geoffrey Thomas Harris CBE
• 1973-74 Lionel Roger Price Pugh CRD DL

See also

• Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Iron and Steel Institute, The" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.