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North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers
AbbreviationThe Mining Institute
Formation1852
Legal statusRoyal Chartered Learned Society
PurposeThe advancement and promotion of Science, Technology and Engineering in the North
Location
  • Neville Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1
MembershipAcademics and Industrialists across Science, Technology, Engineering and Industrial History in the North and across the UK
President
Dr Andrew Dobrzański
Hon. Secretary
Irwin Thompson
Hon. Treasurer
Dr David Bell
Websitemininginstitute.org.uk

Neville Hall and Wood Memorial Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne

The North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (NEIMME), commonly known as The Mining Institute,[1] is a British Royal Chartered learned society and membership organisation dedicated to advancing science and technology in the North and promoting the research and preservation of knowledge relating to mining and mechanical engineering. The membership of the institute is elected on the basis of their academic and professional achievements with Members and Fellows entitled to the postnominal MNEIMME and FNEIMME.[2] The Institute's membership is predominantly from local industry and from academics at Durham and Newcastle Universities, though members are also located further afield across the UK.

The institute was founded in 1852 in Newcastle upon Tyne, and was granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria in 1876. The Institute developed one of the largest collections of mining information in the world.[3] Its library, named after the first President Nicholas Wood contains more than twenty thousand volumes of technical literature,[4] in the fields of mining, geology, mechanical engineering, government blue books, mine rescue, mineralogy, mineral chemistry, mining statistics, mining law, seismology and other related topics.

In 2019 the assets of the Institute – building, library and archive collections and staff – were transferred to a separate charity, The Common Room of the Great North, established to "celebrate the region's engineering history through education and engagement, with a vision to inspire the next generation of innovators and engineers". Neville Hall, the Institute building, was closed for refurbishment in 2019.[5]

The Institute itself continues as an independent professional membership organisation for engineers, and is currently developing a new strategy that aims to increase its activities.

History

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Origins and Formation

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John Buddle

The origins of the Institute stem from William Turner, minister of the Hanover Square Chapel,[6] just behind the position of Newcastle railway station. He began Newcastle's first Sunday School, 'a focus of light and learning' for the town.[7] One of his students, John Buddle, became a viewer (mining engineer) and wealthy mine owner, and member of the Literary and Philosophical Society and the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle upon Tyne (now the Natural History Society of Northumbria). Buddle became a major influence on the Durham and Northumberland Coalfield, "the King of the Coal Trade". In 1816, Buddle devised a system of diverting underground ventilating currents that is in use today. He did not live to see the impact of his legacy, as he died in 1843, nine years before the founding of the institute.[8] His papers and 'place books' were deposited at the institute.

Following an explosion at Felling in 1812, the Sunderland Society was set up to improve safety where gas was present in mines.[9] The committee secured the services of Sir Humphry Davy, inventor of the safety lamp, in 1815.[10] Despite changes, explosions continued, culminating in a devastating explosion at St Hilda Colliery in which 52 persons were killed. The South Shields Committee recommended the introduction of government inspections of mines the education of mechanical engineers, leading to the Coal Mines Inspection Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 100).[11] A coroner's court held at the Mill Inn at Seaham in 1852 suggested it would be advantageous to form a society to consider the prevention of accidents in coal mines.

Nicholas Wood statue in the Wood Memorial Hall

At a meeting of “colliery owners, viewers, and others interested in the Coal Trade” on 3 July 1852, it was proposed to form a society to discuss the ventilation of coalmines, prevention of accidents and other items connected with the general working of coalmines. It was to be called "The North of England Society for the Prevention of Accidents and for other purposes connected with mining", and Nicholas Wood would be chairman.[12] The title actually adopted was the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers, changed in 1870 to North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers.[13] A committee was appointed to draw up rules and the inaugural meeting was held on 3 September 1852 at which Wood delivered the inaugural address at the lecture theatre of the Literary and Philosophical Society. In this address he gave the aims of the Institute:

First, - By a union or concentration of professional experience, to endeavour if possible, to devise measures which may avert or alleviate those dreadful calamities, which have so frequently produced such destruction to life and property, and which are always attended with such misery and distress to the mining population of the district; and Secondly, - to establish a Literary Institution, more particularly applicable to the theory, art, and practice of Mining, than the Institutions in the locality present, or which are within the reach of the profession in this locality.

— Nicholas Wood, Inaugural Address, printed in the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers[14]

Wood was president from the institute's inauguration in 1852 until 19 December 1865 when he died aged 70.

A Royal Charter was awarded by Queen Victoria incorporating the Institute in the 28th of November 1876.

A School of Medicine founded in 1834, a predecessor of Newcastle University, occupied the site the institute was built on. It was in this building part of the 1838 British Association meeting was held. The College of Physical Science in Newcastle, linked to Durham University, was founded in 1871 following some years of discussion and promotion by the institute. Its classes were taught in the institute's lecture theatre. It was renamed Armstrong College and was for many decades part of the University of Durham, later to become Kings College and then Newcastle University.

Similar institutions to the Institute were set up in other parts of Britain and informal collaboration led to the creation in 1889 of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, comprising NEIMME; Chesterfield and Midland Counties Institution of Engineers; Midland Institute of Mining, Civil and Mechanical Engineers; South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire Institute of Mining Engineers and later the North Staffordshire Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, the Mining Institute of Scotland and the Manchester Geological and Mining Society. The name was changed to the Institution of Mining Engineers in 1898. The constituent societies kept their identity within the national Institution and many, like NEIMME, exist today as local societies of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

20th Century

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Historically the institute was concerned not just with measures to reduce accidents, but with the theory, art and practice of mining in general.[14] So through meetings, presentation, discussion and publication of research papers, investigations, experimental work, and so on, the Institute tried to fulfil these aims. Working groups were set up, for example on tail ropes;[15] flameless explosives;[16] mechanical ventilators[17] and mechanical coal cutting.[18][19] There were research committees on such as strata control, set up in 1924[20] and safety in mines reporting, for example on horse haulage.[21] In the 1900s there was also collaboration with Armstrong/Kings College in areas such as ventilation and mine lighting. The institute also worked with National Coal Board committees such as the Divisional Strata Control Research Committee.[22]

The Common Room of the Great North

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During the later 20th Century NEIMME's role and importance declined as the coal industry changed and shrank in size. Its finances became precarious and by the beginning of the 21st Century its continued existence was in doubt. A working group of the Institute concluded that a widening of its role was needed and suggested it used its heritage and collections as a basis for a programme of training, conference, debates, etc. about the future engineering, cultural, infrastructure and so on of the North East. A working title for the new body was the Great North Institute.[23] Heritage Lottery grants enabled the development of the ideas and the creation of a new charity and limited company now named The Common Room of the Great North. and then funded extensive refurbishment of the building. The building now has various spaces for events, family activities, lectures, meetings, weddings and other celebrations.[24] Neville Hall and the NEIMME Library collections - books, journals, reports, maps, photographs, archives, etc. - all legally transferred to The Common Room on 1 March 2019. There is a continuing digitisation programme of archives and other resources in the collection and a process to provide online access to digitised material is being developed.

A Rejuvenated Institute (2020 Onwards)

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For its 170th anniversary the institute developed a new strategy to rejuvenate itself and take it forward to its 180th in 2023. New collaborations with IOM3, the Geological Society, the Institute of Corrosion, IMechE, ICE, IET, IFE, as well as the IMarEst and RINA were forged leading to a series of conferences on 'Northern Energy Transitions Conference' with the Durham Energy Institute and the 'Legacies of Mineral Extraction and Sustainability Opportunities' conferences in 2021, the 2023 'Integrity Engineering for a Sustainable Future' conference joint with the Institute of Corrosion, and the 2024 'Supporting the Future of Northern Semiconductor Industries' with the North East Advanced Materials Electronics cluster.

The Institute now offers small grants to members to help them undertake professional development activities, and alongside the Midlands Institute of Mining Engineers jointly awards the Tunnicliffe Medal which recognises the achievement of Early Career Engineers. It supports engineers, scientists and technicians through its CPD events and Early Career Group, as well as offering mentoring opportunities to support Professional Chartership. The Institute continues to produce publications, with the 2023 publication on new archaeological evidence from the Willington Waggonway which presents an alternative view of the history of railways from the traditional one which begins with George Stephenson and the Stockton and Darlington Railway.

Institute building

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Inside the Wood Memorial Hall

In early years meetings of the Institute were held in the Literary and Philosophical Society and other local premises, but the need for its own building became apparent. Robert Stephenson, son of George Stephenson, a colleague and contemporary of Nicholas Wood, was his pupil at Killingworth Colliery[25] and when Robert Stephenson died in October 1859 he left £2000 to the Institute which started a fund to build its permanent home.[7] In 1867 plans were made and the building constructed in 1869–72 in Grainger's new town on the site of the medical school on land traditionally held by the Dukes of Westmorland, the Nevilles. It comprises the Wood Memorial Hall containing the Library, lecture theatre and other small rooms and Neville Hall which was primarily office space that from the beginning until recently was let to various mining and other organisations, such as the Coal Trade Association, Blyth and Tyne Railway, Freemasons and the Law Society.

The architect was Archibald Matthias Dunn, whose father, mining engineer and Mines Inspector Matthias Dunn, had been present at the institute's inaugural meeting. It was built at the height of the English Gothic Revival and shows a mixture of gothic and Tyneside Classical themes. The Library has high windows and a sky lit barrel-vaulted ceiling - the highest point 39 ft above the floor - with stained glass windows by Cooke of London. It includes a monumental statue of Nicholas Wood mounted on a throne in the setting of an iconstasis. There are other works of art including marble busts of John Buddle and Thomas Forster, the institute's second president[4] and a carving of the River God Tyne including the Institute motto Moneo et munio - I advise and I protect. The original lecture theatre was replaced by the current one in 1902 designed by local architects Cackett and Burns Dick, and modelled on that at the Royal Institution in London. It features a steep rake of seating constructed from Cuban mahogany and the walls display portraits of all the institute's Presidents since 1852.

Activities

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Membership and Postnominals

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The institute is a Royal Chartered membership organisation with members drawn from local industry and academia. The institute has particularly good links with Durham and Newcastle Universities and with the local geotechnical industry. The Institutes' higher membership grades are judged upon academic and professional achievements, with unqualified but interested members of the public able to join in the lower category. The membership grades are:[2]

  • Student
  • Affiliate
  • Associate
  • Member (MNEIMME)
  • Fellow (FNIEMME)

Professional and Public Lectures

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The institute has a monthly series of public lectures public lectures on developments in science and technology. These lectures range in topic from current and historical mining projects, active industrial developments with speakers from manufacturing industries, and research talks given by local PhD students. The Institutes' Younger Members Group arranges lectures and events for under-35s.

The institute also arranges field trips to sites of geological and industrial interest for its members. Many of the Institutes' members have conducted research into the North Pennine Orefield with trips to mines and geological outcrops recorded in its Transactions since the late 1800s to the present day.

Partnerships with other Organisations

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The institute works with other learned and professional organisations to provide its members and the wider public with lectures and events across a range of disciplines. The institute is a 'local society' of the IOM3 and runs events promoting the study and research of materials science. The Institute holds an annual joint-lecture with the Geological Society of London on strategic geological topics, and has had links with the Society dating back to the 1800s when the British Association meeting was held in Newcastle. The institute also holds joint events with the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland on applied mineralogy and petrology subjects, with the Stephenson Locomotive Society on industrial heritage and transport topics, as well as the Institute of Corrosion, and Institution of Civil Engineers.

Library collections and Publishing

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The collections include books, statistical compendia, Mines Inspectors reports, journals, Government committee reports, archives, tracts, maps, photographs, technical reports, artworks and there is a searchable catalogue.[26] In recent years library material has been transferred to the Institute following the closure of institutions such as the NCB Coal Research Establishment at Stoke Orchard, the NCB Mining Research and Development Establishment at Bretby, the British Coal Utilisation Research Association and the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Newcastle.

The Institute regularly publishes articles in its online Transactions on topics ranging from mining engineering and industrial heritage, to materials science and industrial policy.

Governance

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Main article: Presidents of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers

The institute is governed by a Council - as dictated by the Royal Charter - comprising the President, two Vice Presidents, the Honorary Secretary, the Honorary Treasurer, the immediate fifteen Past Presidents, and members elected from the membership. The current Council is composed of professional mining engineers and coal miners from the North East collieries as well as representatives from the local geotechnical industry, academics from Durham University, industrial historians, and active exploration geologists.

Other uses of the building

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In recent years the main hall of the institute has also been used as a 100-capacity music venue, predominantly by local bands.[27] The space has been described as "brilliantly atmospheric",[28] and "an intimate setting for live music".[27] The Mining Institute has also been used as a venue for Home Gathering Festival[29] and is also available for conferences and weddings. The Institute building was closed for refurbishment but reopened in July 2021.[30]

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  • The lecture theatre
    The lecture theatre
  • Richard Grainger's 1836 proposal for a Central Railway Depot
    Richard Grainger's 1836 proposal for a Central Railway Depot
  • Birkinshaw's patent malleable iron rails
    Birkinshaw's patent malleable iron rails
  • Thomas Young Hall's system for penetrating dangerous gases 1853
    Thomas Young Hall's system for penetrating dangerous gases 1853

Notable members

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Presidents

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The President of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers chairs the Council of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers (NEIMME) and its formal meetings.

The first president was Nicholas Wood in 1852. Since then the post has been held by many distinguished engineers, scientists and industrialists.

No. Image Name Start year End year Profession Note Reference
1 Nicholas Wood FGS FRS 1852 1866 Colliery and steam locomotive engineer

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2 Thomas Emerson Forster 1866 1868 Mining Engineer

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3 Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet 1868 1869 Coal Miner, MP

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4 Edward Fenwick Boyd 1869 1872

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5 William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong 1872 1875

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6(a) Sir Lindsay Wood 1875 1878 Managing director of Hetton Collieries, North Hetton Coal Company and Harton Coal Company Also President of the Durham Coalowners’ Association

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7 George Clementson Greenwell 1878 1881 Mining Engineer

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8 George Baker Forster 1881 1884 Consulting Engineer

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9 John Daglish 1884 1886 Colliery Viewer

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10 Lowthian Bell 1886 1888 Metallurgist

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11 John Marley 1888 1890 Mining Engineer

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12 William Cochrane 1890 1891 Consulting Engineer

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13 John Bell Simpson 1891 1893 Mining Engineer

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14 Addison Langhorne Steavenson 1893 1894

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15 Thomas Douglas 1894 1896 Mining Engineer

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16 George May 1896 1898 Member of the Durham Coal Owner's Association

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17 William Armstrong 1898 1900 Mining Engineer

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18 John George Weeks 1900 1902 Mining Engineer Vice-chairman of Northumberland Coal-owners’ Association

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6(b) Sir Lindsay Wood 1902 1903

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19 William Outterson Wood 1903 1904 Mining Engineer

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20 Thomas Walter Benson 1904 1906 Mine Owner

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21 John Herman Merivale 1906 1908 Mining Engineer Chair of Mining at the College of Physical Science. Awarded an honorary MA from Durham University in 1884

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22 Thomas Emerson Forster Jnr 1908 1910 Consulting Engineer Rowed for Cambridge in the Boat Race

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23 Matthew William Parrington 1910 1912 Mining Engineer Manager and Director of Wearmouth Colliery, Sunderland

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24 Col. William Cuthbert Blackett CBE 1912 1914 Mine Manager and Chief Engineer During the First World War he commanded several territorial battalions and served in France in 1918 (being made a CBE).

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25 Thomas Young Greener 1914 1916 Mine Surveyor

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26 Frank Coulson 1916 1917 Shaft Sinker Officer in the Volunteer Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry reaching the rank of Colonel

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27 John Simpson 1917 1919 Mine Manager

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28(a) Col Sir Frank Robert Simpson 1919 1921 Mining Engineer Pioneer of electrification of collieries and of adapting mechanized mining to thin seams. Commander and later Honorary Colonel of the 9th Durham Light Infantry

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29 Charles Catterall Leach 1921 1923 Mine Owner

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30 Samuel Hare 1923 1924 Mine Manager

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31 Philip Kirkup 1924 1925 Mining Engineer

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32 Arthur Morton Hedley 1925 1927 Consulting Mining Engineer

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33 Mark Ford 1927 1929 Mining Engineer

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34 Robert Simpson Anderson 1929 1931 Mine Agent

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35 William Cochran Carr 1931 1933

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36 Robert William Glass 1933 1934 Mine Manager

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37 Robert Simon Tate 1934 1935 Mining Engineer

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28(b) Col Sir Frank Robert Simpson 1935 1936

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38 Frederick Peter Mills 1936 1937 Mine Manager Chief Officer of the Durham & Northumberland Collieries Fire and Rescue Brigade

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39 Thomas Greenland Davies 1937 1938 Inspector of Mines

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40 George Raw 1938 1939 Mine Manager Director of Weardale Coal & Coke Company, South Hetton Coal Company and Easington Coal Company.

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41 Richard James Weeks 1939 1940

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42 Stanley Walton-Brown 1940 1941

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43 Thomas Rossiter Ridpath 1941 1942

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44 Henry Edmund Blackburne Daniell 1942 1944

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45 Robert Wylie Anderson MC 1944 1946 Consulting Mine Engineer In the First World War he served in the Tyne Electrical Engineers and was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross

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46 Arthur Walker 1946 1948

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47 Haswell Alder 1948 1950 Mine Manager

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48 Granville Poole 1950 1952 Inspector of Mines

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49 Alan Lothian Ford 1952 1954

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50 Donald Hindson 1954 1955

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51 Robert Williams 1955 1956 Awarded the G.C.Greenwell Medal in 1925 for “A survey of a mining field with special reference to metalliferous mines”

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52 Stanley Walton-Brown 1956 1957 Mining Engineer

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53 Edward Logan Johnston Potts 1957 1958 Mining Engineer

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54 Ross Scott McLaren 1958 1959 Mining Engineer MBE in 1940 for war activities and OBE in 1964 for his work with the NCB

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55 William Welsh 1959 1960 Mining Engineer

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56 James Samuel Carson 1960 1961 Mining Engineer

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57 Samuel Walter Potts 1961 1963 Mining Engineer

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58 Norman Reginald Palmer 1963 1964 Mine Surveyor

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59 Walter Widdas 1964 1965 Inspector of Mines

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60 Charles Roy Knaggs 1965 1966 Mine Manager

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61 Herbert Youngs Robinson 1966 1967 Lecturer at Kings College, Durham University MSc from Durham University in 1948 for a thesis entitled 'The examination and suggested treatment for the concentration of fluorspar ore mined in County Durham'

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62 William Stanley Foster 1967 1968 Mining Engineer

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63 Edward Eric Cleaver 1968 1969 Mine Manager

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64 John Trevor Harding 1969 1970 Mine Manager In 1960 he was awarded the G.C.Greenwell Bronze Medal

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65 Robert Williams 1970 1971 Mine Surveyor & Manager

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66 Robert Gordon McKillup 1971 1972 Mine Manager

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67 Edward Charlton 1972 1973 Mining Engineer

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68 Charles Deamster Hornsby 1973 1974 Mine Manager Educated at Sedbergh School and Durham University. In 1980 he was awarded the G.C.Greenwell Silver Medal for his paper on face mechanisation in the North East Area.

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69 Dr. William Hook 1974 1975 Chemist PhD in 1936 for research on the coking process.

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70 Douglas Alfred Hall 1975 1976 Chemist

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71 Harry Burn 1976 1977 Mining Engineer

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72 Kenneth Kay 1977 1978 Mining Engineer

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73 Hugh Irwin 1978 1979

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74 Percy Blunt 1979 1980 Mine Manager 1962 he was awarded the MBE for gallantry for assisting in the rescue of a trapped miner the previous December when he was Acting Manager at Whitwell.

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75 George Anthony Hetherington 1980 1981 Mine Manager

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76 Michael Widdas 1981 1982 Mine Manager

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77 William Archibald Summers 1982 1983 Mine Engineer

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78 Ralph Blance 1983 1984

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79 Dr Robert John Fowell 1984 1985

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80 Francis Peter John Adams 1985 1986

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81 George Weatherburn Taylor 1986 1987

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82 John James Lormor 1987 1988

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83 Joseph Parkins 1988 1989

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84 Gordon Proctor 1989 1990

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85 Ralph Sanderson 1990 1991

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86 Derek Newton 1991 1992

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87 Dr Barrie Jones 1992 1993

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88 Thomas Parker Watson 1993 1994

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89 Robert Eric Collins 1994 1995

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90 Ian Smith 1995 1996

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91 David Williams 1996 1997

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92 John Ceiriog Hughes 1997 1998

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93 John Harry Humphries 1998 1999

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94 Norman William Jackson 1999 2000

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95 Dr Jan Popke Jacob Ketelaar 2000 2001

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96 Ian Waugh 2001 2002

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97 Gerard Huitson 2002 2003

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98 Prof Paul Lawrence Younger 2003 2004 Hydrogeologist

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99 William Edward Hindmarsh 2004 2005

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100 John Thomas Crompton 2005 2006

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101 John Stuart Porthouse 2006 2007

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102 Dr David Charles Bell 2007 2008

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103 John Gerard McCabe 2008 2009

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104 Malcolm Richard Tilley 2009 2010

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105 William Hogarth Bell 2010 2012

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106(a) Dr Frederick Wardle Smith 2012 2013

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107 John Thomas Crompton 2013 2014

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108 Stephen Paul Davidson 2014 2015

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109 Catherine Marianne Miller 2015 2017

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106(b) Dr Frederick Wardle Smith 2017 2020

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110 Steve Martin 2020

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