Institution of Civil Engineers

Founded on 2 January 1818, the Institution of Civil Engineers (the ICE) is an independent professional association, based in central London, representing civil engineers. Like its early membership, the majority of its current members are British engineers, but it also has members in more than 100 countries around the world. In 2003, its total membership stood at around 80,000. In 2004, Colin Clinton assumed office as the current President.

Past ICE Presidents

Many of the profession?s greatest engineers have served as President of the ICE including:

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• Thomas Telford (1820-1834 ? the post later became a biennial and then annual accolade)
• James Walker (1834-45)
• Sir William Cubitt (1851)
• Robert Stephenson (1855)
• Joseph Locke (1857)
• Sir John Fowler (1865)
• Thomas Hawksley (1871)
• William Henry Barlow (1879)
• Sir Joseph Bazalgette (1888)
• Sir John Coode (1889-1891)
• Sir Robert Rawlinson (1894)
• Sir John Wolfe-Barry (1896)
• Sir Alexander Binnie (1905)
• Sir William Halcrow (1944)

Sadly, arguably Britain's greatest engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel died before he could take up the post (he was vice-president from 1850).

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