Honorary Members and Fellows
Honorary Membership was the highest honour the Institution could bestow. The equivalent award today is Honorary Fellowship. The list of Honorary Members and Fellows includes :
| 1857 | Thomas Cochrane, Earl of Dundonald |
| James Walker | |
| James Prescott Joule | |
| 1859 | Charles Piazzi Smyth |
| William Fairbairn | |
| 1859 | William Thomson, Lord Kelvin |
| Rudolf Clausius | |
| General Arthur Morin | |
| Joseph Whitworth | |
| Lewis Dunbar Brodie Gordon | |
| John Tyndall | |
| The Duke of Sutherland | |
| 1884 | William Armstrong, Lord Armstrong |
| Hermann von Helmholtz | |
| Robert Angus Smith | |
| 1891 | Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey |
| 1891 | Sir Henry Bessemer |
| 1891 | Archibald Campbell, 1st Baron Blythswood |
| 1891 | Sir Alexander Blackie William Kennedy |
| 1891 | Sir Digby Murray |
| 1894 | Sir William Henry White |
| 1896 | Sir A J Durston |
| 1897 | R E Froude |
| Nicholas Wood | |
| Archibald Smith | |
| Sir Harold Yarrow | |
| Percy Hillhouse, John Elder Professor of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Glasgow |
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| James Foster King | |
| Professor Alexander Lawson Mellanby | |
| Arthur James Balfour (Earl of Balfour) | |
| Alfred Charles Gardner | |
| Sir James Lithgow | |
| Rear Admiral David Watson Taylor (US Navy) | |
| Sir Eric Yarrow | |
| 2004 | Sir Robert Easton |
| 2004 | Thomas Orr Leith |
| 2012 | Sir John Parker |
With thanks to Stuart D Cameron for researching these details.
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