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The Telford Medal is a prize awarded by the British Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for a paper or series of papers. It was introduced in 1835 following a bequest made by

Thomas Telford Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE, (9 August 1757 – 2 September 1834) was a Scottish civil engineer. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotla ...

, the ICE's first president. It can be awarded in gold, silver or bronze; the Telford Gold Medal is the highest award the institution can bestow.

History

In 1834 Scottish civil engineer and the Institution of Civil Engineers' first president (1820-1834),

died, leaving in his will his library of technical works to the Institution of Civil Engineers, as well as a bequest of £2000; the interest from which was to be used to for the purpose of "Annual Premiums". The council of the institute decided to expend the premiums on both honorary and monetary rewards, the honorary awards being named Telford Medals, which would be awarded in gold, silver and bronze forms. Suitable candidates for the awards were submitters of drawings, models, diagrams or essays relating to

civil engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewage ...

or any other new equipment of invention relating to engineering or surveying in general, which is regarded as most seminal and influential. The awards were to be open to both Englishmen and foreigners equally. After provision for the Telford Medal, the remaining income is used for up to four annual prizes for papers presented to the institution. The inaugural gold award was given in June 1837 to John Timperley for his account of the history and construction of the town docks of the Port of Kingston upon Hull, published in volume 1 of the ''Transactions of the Institution of Civil Engineers''; the medals carried an image of Telford on one side, and of his Menai Bridge on the reverse. The bust of Telford was a design by William Wyon and the medal is also signed "J. S. and A. B. Wyon" a collaboration of

Joseph Shepherd Wyon Joseph Shepherd Wyon (28 July 1836 – 12 August 1873) was a British medallist and seal-engraver. Life Born in London on 28 July 1836, he was the eldest son of Benjamin Wyon. He was educated by his father, and studied in the Royal Academy Schoo ...

and his brother, Alfred Benjamin Wyon.

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received silver awards in the same session.

Recipients

Telford Medal

The Telford gold medal is issued generally once a year. See below for the Telford Premium of which a larger number (up to 10, may be issued each year in the silver and bronze categories).

21st century

20th century

19th century

{, class="wikitable" style="align:left;" , - !Year !Name !Medal !Paper , - , rowspan="3" , 1897-1898 , , Arthur Henry Preece , , , , 'The Electricity Supply of London' , - ,

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, , , , 'Re-erection of the Albert Bridge, Brisbane' , - ,

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, , , , 'Calcium Carbide and Acetylene' , - , rowspan="5" , 1896-1897 , , Herbert Alfred Humphrey , , , , 'The Mond Gas-Producer Plant and its Application.' , - , Colonel John Pennycuick , , , , 'The Diversion of the Periyar' , - , Edward Clapp Shankland , , , , 'Steel Skeleton Construction in Chicago' , - , Thomas Holgate , , , , 'The Enrichment of Coal-Gas' , - ,

Dugald Drummond Dugald Drummond (1 January 1840 – 8 November 1912) was a Scottish steam locomotive engineer. He had a career with the North British Railway, LB&SCR, Caledonian Railway and London and South Western Railway. He was the older brother of the eng ...

, , , , 'Investigation into the Use of Progressive High Pressures in Non-compound Locomotive Engines' , - , rowspan="4" , 1895-1896 , , Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey , , , , 'The Thermal Efficiency of Steam Engines' , - ,

James Alfred Ewing Sir James Alfred Ewing MInstitCE (27 March 1855 − 7 January 1935) was a Scottish physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, '' h ...

, , , , 'The Magnetic Testing of Iron and Steel' , - , John Oliver Arnold , , , , 'The Influence of Carbon on Iron.' , - , George Henry Hill , , , , 'The Thirlmere Works for the Water-Supply of Manchester' , - , rowspan="4", 1894-1895, , William Duff Bruce , , , , 'The Kidderpur Docks, Calcutta' , - , Sigvard Johnson Berg , , , , 'The St. Gothard Mountain Railway and the Stanzerhorn Cable Railway' , - , Archibald Sharp , , , , 'Circular Wheel Teeth' , - , Henry Gill, , , , Posthumously for 'The Filtration of the Muggel Lake Water Supply, Berlin' , - , rowspan="2" , 1893-1894 , , William John Bird Clerke , , , , Construction of the masonry dam at Tansa , - , Sakuro Tanabe , , , , 'The Lake Biwa to Kioto Canal' , - , rowspan="6" , 1892-1893 , , Peter William Willans , , , , 'Steam Engine Trials' , - , Mathew Buchan Jamieson and John Howell , , , , 'Mining and Ore-Treatment at Broken Hill, New South Wales' , - , George Shattuck Morison , , , , 'The River Piers of the Memphis Bridge' , - , Robert Gordon , , , , 'Hydraulic Work in the Irrawaddy Delta' , - ,

Alan Brebner Alan Brebner MInstCE () was a Scottish civil engineer, primarily associated with the Stevenson family who designed and built the majority of lighthouses in and around Scotland over several generations. Early life Brebner was born in Edinburg ...

, , , , 'Relative Powers of Lighthouse Lenses' , - , Alexander Pelham Trotter , , The Distribution and Measurement of Illumination , - , rowspan="3" , 1891-1892 , , Francis Fox , , , , 'The Hawarden Bridge' , - , Alfred Weeks Szlumper , , , , "Widening and Improvement Works London and South Western Railway Metropolitan Extension". , - ,

Thomas Hudson Beare Sir Thomas Hudson Beare FRSE RSSA (30 June 1859 – 10 June 1940) was an eminent British engineer. He was successively Professor of Engineering at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, at University College, London (where he was a colleague of K ...

, , , , "The Building-Stones of Great Britain: their Crushing Strength and other Properties". , - , 1890-1891 , ,

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, , , , , - , rowspan= "3", 1889-1890 , , John Robinson , , , , 'The Barry Dock Works including the Hydraulic Machinery and the Mode of Tipping Coal' , - , Charles Ormsby Burge , , , , , - , Frederick Thomas Granville Walton , , , , Chief Engineer of Dufferin Bridge, India, 1887 , - , rowspan="2" , 1888-1889 , ,

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, , , , 'Alternate Current Machinery' , - , Edgar Worthington , , , , , - , rowspan="3" , 1887-1888 , ,

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, , , , 'Manganese in its Application to Metallurgy and Some Newly discovered Properties of Iron and Manganese' , - ,

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, , , , 'Electrical Tramway: the Bessbrook and Newry Tramway' , - , Josiah Pierce Jun , , , , 'The Economic Use of the Plane-Table in Topographical Surveying' , - , rowspan="3" , 1885-1886 , ,

, , , , 'Modern Continuous Current Dynamo-Electric Machines and their Engines' , - , Charles Edmund Stromeyer , , , , ‘The Injurious Effect of a Blue Heat on Steel and Iron’ , - ,

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, , , , 'The River Seine' , - , rowspan="5" , 1883-1884 , , Thomas Andrews , , , , 'Galvanic Action between Wrought Iron, Cast Metals, and various Steels, during long exposure in Sea-water' , - ,

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, , , , , , , - , Sir Samuel Bagster Boulton, Bt , , , , 'The Antiseptic Treatment of Timber' , - , William Foster , , , , 'Experiments on the Composition and Destructive Distillation of Coal' , - , Francis Collingwood , , , , 'On Repairing the Cables of the Allegheny Suspension Bridge at Pittsburgh, Pa., U.S.A' , - , rowspan="3" , 1882-1883 , ,

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, , , , 'On Machine-Tools, and other Labour-saving Appliances, worked by Hydraulic-Pressure,' , - ,

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, , , , 'Antwerp Waterworks' , - , George Howard , , , , , - , rowspan = "3", 1881-1882 , ,

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, , , , , - , James Weyrauch , , , , , - , , 1880-1881 , , Benjamin Walker , , , , 'Machinery for Steel Making by Bessemer and Siemens Processes.' , - , rowspan="3" , 1879-1880 , , James Bower Mackenzie , , , , 'The Avonmouth Dock.' , - , Adam Fettiplace Blandy , , , , 'Dock Gates' , - , Joseph Lucas , , , , Hydrogeological surveys , - , 1877-1878 , , Frederick Augustus Abel , , , , , - , 1876-1877 , , Benjamin Baker , , , , Cleopatra's Needle , - , rowspan = "4", 1874-1875 , ,

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, , , , 'On the Constant and Intermittent Supply of Water' , - , William Hackney , , , , 'The Manufacture of Steel' , - , Harry Edward Jones, , , , 'The Construction of Gasworks' , - , Alexander Richardson Binnie , , , , 'The Nagpur Waterworks' , - , rowspan="3" , 1873-1874 , ,

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, , , , 'On the construction of Harbour and Marine Works' , - , Richard Christopher Rapier , , , , 'On the Fixed Signals of Railways' , - , Joseph Prestwich , , , , 'On the Geological Conditions affecting the Construction of a Tunnel between England and France' , - , rowspan="5" , 1872-1873 , , Bradford Leslie , , , , 'Account of the Bridge over the Gorai River, on the Goalundo Extension of the Eastern Bengal Railway' , - , Carl Wilhelm Siemens , , , , 'Pneumatic Despatch Tubes' , - , William Bell , , , , 'On the Stresses of Rigid Arches, Continuous Beams and Curved Structures' , - , John Herbert Latham , , , , 'The Soonkesala Canal of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company' , - , George Gordon , , , , 'The Value of Water and its Storage and Distribution in Southern India' , - , rowspan="4" , 1870-1871 , ,

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, , , , 'Memoir on the Public Works of the Province of Canterbury, New Zealand' , - , Thomas Sopwith , , , , 'The Dressing of Lead Ores' , - ,

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, , , , 'The Wolf Rock Lighthouse' , - ,

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, , , , 'On the Construction of Blast Furnaces' , - , rowspan="6" , 1869-1870 , , Jules Gaudard , , , , 'On the Present State of Knowledge as to the Strength and Resistance of Materials' , - , William Shelford , , , , 'On the Outfall of the River Humber' , - , Zerah Colborne , , , , 'On American Locomotives and Rolling Stock' , - , Thomas Nesham Kirkham , , , , 'Experiments on the Standards of Comparison employed for Testing the Illuminating Power of Coal Gas' , - , John Ellacott , , , , 'Description of the Low Water Basin at Birkenhead' , - ,

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, , , , 'On the Lagoons and Marshes of certain parts of the Shores of the Mediterranean' , - , rowspan="6" , 1868-1869 , , George Higgin , , , , 'Irrigation in Spain chiefly in reference to the Construction of the Henares and Esla Canals in that Country' , - , Christer Peter Sandberg , , , , 'On the Manufacture and Wear of Rails' , - , Lieutenant Colonel Peter Pierce Lyons O’Connell , , , , 'On the Relation of the Fresh Water Floods of Rivers to the Areas and Physical Features of their Basins' , - , William Wilson , , , , 'Description of the Victoria Bridge on the line of the Victoria Station and Pimloco Railway' , - , Charles Douglas , , , , 'On New Railways at Battersea; with the Widening of the Victoria Bridge and Approaches to the Victoria Station' , - ,

John Wolfe Barry Sir John Wolfe Barry (7 December 1836 – 22 January 1918), the youngest son of famous architect Sir Charles Barry, was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project is Tower Bridge over the River ...

, , , , 'On the City Terminus Extension of the Charing Cross Railway' , - , rowspan="3" , 1866-1867 , ,

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, , , , 'On Optical Apparatus used in Lighthouses' , - , Edward Byrne , , , , 'Removal of Organic and Inorganic Substances in Water' , - , George Biddell Airy Astronomer Royal , , , , 'On the use of the Suspension Bridge with Stiffened Roadway for Railway and other Bridges of Great Span' , - , rowspan="5" , 1865-1866 , , Richard Price Williams , , , , , - ,

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, , , , 'On Uniform Stress in Girder Work, illustrated by reference to two bridges recently built' , - , Edwin Clark , , , , The Hydraulic Lift Graving Dock , - , Robert Manning , , , , The flow of water off the ground in the Woodburn District near Carrickfergus , - , Joseph William Bazalgette, , , , On the Main Drainage of London, and the Interception of the Sewage from the River Thames , - , rowspan="3" , 1864-1865 , , Matthew Digby Wyatt , , , , the construction of the Exhibition building , - , Charles Tilston Bright , , , , Submarine Telegraphy to China and Australia , - ,

Henry Whatley Tyler Sir Henry Whatley Tyler (7 March 1827 – 30 January 1908) was a pioneering British engineer and politician, who contributed to the Great Exhibition of 1851 and whose collections helped found the Science Museum in South Kensington. His interests ...

, , , , 'The Festiniog for Passengers' , - , rowspan="4" , 1863-1864 , , John Brunton , , , , 'Description of the Line and Works of the Scinde Railway' , - , James Robert Mosse , , , , 'On American Timber Bridges' , - , Zerah Colburn , , , , 'On American Iron Bridges' , - , Harrison Hayter , , , , 'On the Charing Cross Bridge' , - , rowspan="3" , 1861-1862 , , William Henry Preece , , , , 'On the Maintenance and Durability of Submarine Cables in Shallow Waters' , - ,

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, , , , 'The National Defences' , - ,

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, , , , 'On the Results of Trials of Varieties of Iron Permanent Way' , - , rowspan="2" , 1859-1860 , , James John Berkeley , , , , 'On Indian Railways, with a description of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway' , - , Richard Boxall Grantham , , , , On Arterial Drainage and Outfalls' , - , rowspan="4" , 1858-1859 , , Robert Mallet , , , , 'on the Coefficients of Elasticity and Rupture in Wrought Iron.' , - , Sir

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, , , , The Bessemer Process , - , Michael Scott , , , , 'Description of the breakwater at the Port of Blyth and of improvements in breakwaters applicable to harbours of refuge' , - , William Joseph Kingsbury , , , , 'Description of the entrance, entrance lock and jetty walls of the Victoria (London) docks' , - , rowspan="6" , 1857-1858 , , James Atkinson Longridge , , , , 'On submersing telegraph cables' , - , George Robertson , , , , 'An Investigation into the Theory and Practice of Hydraulic Mortar' , - , James Henderson , , , , 'on the Methods generally employed in Cornwall in dressing Tin and Copper Ores' , - , Robert Jacomb-Hood , , , , 'On the Arrangement and Construction of Railway Stations' , - , Major-General George Borlase Tremenheere , , , , 'On public works in the Bengal Presidency' , - ,

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, , , , 'On the Construction of the Southampton Docks' , - , rowspan="4" , 1856-1857 , , Daniel Kinnear Clark , , , , 'On the Improvement of Railway Locomotive Stock' , - , Robert Hunt , , , , 'On Electro-Magnetism as a Motive Power' , - , George Rennie , , , , 'On the Employment of Rubble Beton, or Concrete, in Works of Engineering or Architecture' , - , William Bridges Adams , , , , 'On the Varieties of Permanent Way, practically used, or tried, on Railways' , - , rowspan="5" , 1855-1856 , , John Murray , , , , 'On the Progressive Construction of the Sunderland Docks' , - , John Mortimer Heppel , , , , 'On the relative proportions of the Top, Bottom, and Middle Webs of Iron Girders and Tubes' , - , Henry Robinson , , , , 'On the Past and Present Condition of the River Thames' , - ,

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, , , , 'On Steep Gradients of Railways and the Locomotives employed' , - , Frederick M. Kelly , , , , 'On the Junction of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the practicability of a Ship Canal without Locks, by the Valley of the Atrato' , - , rowspan="4" , 1854-1855 , , Edward Ellis Allen , , , , 'On the Comparative Cost of Transit, by Steam and Sailing Colliers, and on the Different Modes of Ballasting' , - , James Barton , , , , 'On the Economic Distribution of Material in the Sides, or Vertical Portion of Wrought-Iron Beams' , - , Richard Alexander Robinson , , , , 'On the Application of the Screw Propeller, to the Larger Class of Sailing Vessels' , - , Joseph Phillips , , , , 'Description of the Iron Roof, in one Span, over the Joint Railway Station, New Street, Birmingham' , - , rowspan="5" , 1853-1854 , ,

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, , , , 'Description of the Navigation and Drainage Works, recently executed on the Tidal portion of the River Lea' , - , Andrew Henderson , , , , 'On the Speed and other properties of Ocean Steamers and on the measurement of Ships for Tonnage' , - , John Pigott Smith , , , , 'On Macadamised Roads, for the Streets of Towns' , - ,

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, , , , 'On the Principles and Construction of Locks' , - , James Yates , , , , 'On the means of attaining to Uniformity in European Measures, Weights and Coins' , - , rowspan="9" , 1852-1853 , , John Coode , , , , 'Description of the Chesil Bank' , - , Daniel Kinnear Clark , , , , 'Experimental Investigation of the Principles of the Boilers of Locomotive Engines' , - , William Alexander Brooks , , , , 'On the Improvement of Tidal Navigation and Drainages' , - , John Barker Huntington , , , , 'Observations on Salt Water, and its application to the Generation of Steam' , - , Harry Potter Burt , , , , 'On the Nature and Properties of Timber, with notices of several methods now in use for its preservation from Decay' , - , Thomas Duncan , , , , 'Description of the Liverpool Corporation Water Works' , - ,

Charles William Siemens Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens (4 April 1823 – 19 November 1883), anglicised to Charles William Siemens, was a German-British electrical engineer and businessman. Biography Siemens was born in the village of Lenthe, today part of Gehrden, near Han ...

, , , , 'On the Conversion of Heat into Mechanical Effect' , - , Benjamin Cheverton , , , , 'On the use of Heated Air as a Motive Power' , - , James Barrett , , , , 'On the Construction of Fire Proof Buildings' , - , rowspan="8" , 1851-1852 , , Captain

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, , , , 'On Railway Accidents' , - , Braithwaite Poole , , , , 'On the Economy of Railways ‘ , - , Colonel

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, , , , 'On Applications of Machinery to the Manufacture of Rotating Chamber-breech Fire-arms and the peculiarities of those Arms' , - , Frederick Richard Window , , , , 'On the Electric Telegraph and the principal improvements in its construction' , - , Charles Coles Adley , , , , 'On the History, Theory and Practice of the Electric Telegraph' , - ,

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, , , , 'Description of the new Metallic Manometer and other instruments for measuring Pressures and Temperatures' , - , Pierre Hippolyte Boutigny (d’Évreux) , , , , 'Description of a new Diaphragm Steam Generator' , - , George Frederick White , , , , 'Observations on Artificial or Portland Cement' , - , rowspan="6" , 1850-1851 , , Samuel Clegg , , , , 'On Foundations, Natural and Artificial' , - , Matthew Digby Wyatt , , , , 'On the Construction of the Building for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations 1851' , - , Henry Swinburne , , , , 'Account of the Sea Walls at Penmaenmawr, on the line of the Chester and Holyhead Railway' , - ,

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, , , , 'Description of the Bridge built over the River Tweed, on the line of the York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway' , - , John Hughes , , , , 'On the Pheumatic method adopted in constructing the Foundations of the new Bridge across the Medway, at Rochester' , - , William Price Struve Hughes , , , , 'On the Ventilation of Collieries, theoretically and practically considered' , - , rowspan="10" , 1849-1850 , ,

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, , , , , - , William Henry Barlow , , , , 'On the Construction of the Permanent Way of Railways' , - , William Taylor , , , , 'On the Street Paving of the Metropolis' , - ,

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, , , , 'On the Manufacture of Malleable Iron and on the strength of Railway Axles' , - , Rev James Charles Clutterbuck , , , , 'On the periodical alternations and progressive permanent depression of the Chalk-water Level under London' , - , John Chubb , , , , 'On the Construction of Locks and Keys' , - , Richard Turner , , , , 'Description of the Iron Roof over the

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, Liverpool' , - , Lt Col John Augustus Lloyd , , , , 'On the facilities for the construction of a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama' , - ,

Edward Cowper Edward Shickle Cowper (1790–1852) was an English printing engineer, inventor, and academic. Life Cowper went into partnership as a printer with his brother-in-law, Augustus Applegath, around 1813, when their employer William Cornish died. A pr ...

, , , , 'On Printing Machines' , - , John Patton , , , , 'Description of the Southend Pier and treatise on the habits of the Toredo navalis' , - , rowspan="3" , 1849 , , John Thornhill Harrison , , , , 'Observations on the Obstructions to Navigation in Tidal Rivers' , - , Colonel Harry David Jones , , , , 'Description and drawings of the Bridge at Athlone' , - , Robert Benson Dockray , , , , 'Description and drawings of the Camden Station, London and North Western Railway’ , - , rowspan="4" , 1848 , , John Thornhill Harrison , , , , 'Observations on the Causes that are in constant operation, tending to alter the Outline of Coats, to effect the Entrances of Rivers and Harbours, and to form Shoals and Deeps in the bed of the Sea' , - , Right Honourable the

Earl of Lovelace Earl of Lovelace was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1838 for William King-Noel, 8th Baron King, a title created in 1725. History The King or Locke King family stems from the elevation of the son of Jerome ...

, , , , 'On Harbours of Refuge' , - , Alexander Mitchell , , , , ‘On Submarine Foundations, particularly the Screw Pile and Mooring’ , - ,

Frederick Ransome Frederick Ransome (1818–1893) was a British inventor and industrialist, creator of Ransome's artificial stone. Frederick was the son of James Ransome, 1782–1849, a member of the Ransomes steel and agricultural equipment-making family of Ip ...

, , , , 'On the production of Artificial Stone, by the combination of Silica, in a liquid form, with Sand and other materials' , - , rowspan="5" , 1847 , , George Briant Wheeler Jackson , , , , 'Account of the GreatNorth Holland Canal' , - , Joshua Richardson , , , , 'On the Ventilation of Mines' , - , John Murray , , , , 'Account of the progressive improvements in Sunderland Harbour and the River Wear' , - , Joseph Glynn , , , , 'Review of the plans that have been proposed for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by a Navigable Canal' , - , Charles Frodsham , , , , 'On the Laws of Isochronism of the Balance Spring, as connected with the higher order of adjustment of Watches and Chronometers' , - , rowspan="7" , 1846 , , William Henry Barlow , , , , 'On the existence (practically) of the line of equal Horizontal Thrust in Arches' , - , George Snell , , , , 'On the Stability of Arches' , - ,

Wyndham Harding Wyndham Harding (1817–1855)Obituary: Institute of Civil Engineers, 'Minutes of the Proceedings', Volume 15, Issue 1856, pages 97 –100 was an English civil engineer and philanthropist. Biography He was Secretary of the London and South-Wester ...

, , , , 'On the Resistance to Railway Trains at different velocities' , - ,

Edward Leader Williams Sir Edward Leader Williams (28 April 1828 – 1 January 1910) was an English civil engineer, chiefly remembered as the designer of the Manchester Ship Canal, but also heavily involved in other canal projects in north Cheshire. Early life ...

, , , , 'Description of the Improvements of the River Severn' The description of the award is correct but the link is to the wrong Edward L Williams; the link being to his son. , - ,

William Parkes William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conques ...

, , , , 'On the estuary of the River Severn' , - , William West , , , , 'On Water for Locomotive Engines' , - , Dr Louis Antoine Ritterbandt , , , , 'Description of a method of preventing the Incrustation of Steam Boilers' , -, , rowspan="2" , 1845, , Philip Chilwell De La Garde , , , , 'Memoir of the Canal at Exeter from 1563 to 1724' , - , George Edwards , , , , 'On blasting Marl Rocks under water in the River Severn'{ , - , rowspan="11" , 1844 , , William Fairbairn , , , , 'On the properties of Iron Ores of Samakoff, in Turkey.' , - , John Murray , , , , 'Descriptions and drawings of the removal of the lighthouse on the north pier at Sunderland' , - ,

James Bremner James Bremner (25 September 1784 – August 1856), a notable Scottish naval architect, harbour builder and ship-raiser. Life and work James, the youngest of the nine children of Janet and James Bremner, was born in Stain, near Keiss, in the p ...

, , , , 'On Pulteney Town Harbour "Secret Harbour" A new Piling Engine' and 'an Apparatus for floating large stones for Harbour Works' , - , Andrew Murray , , , , 'On the construction and proper proportions of Steam Boilers' , - ,

Alexander Angus Croll Alexander Angus Croll (1811-1887) was a British civil engineer who patented a method of purifying town gas of ammonia. He was Sheriff of the City of London. He is buried in Brookwood Cemetery. Granard Park Croll was the owner of Granard Park ( ...

, , , , 'On the purification of Coal Gas' , - , James Braidwood , , , , ‘The means of rendering large supplies of Water available in cases of Fire etc’ , - ,

Jacob Samuda Jacob Samuda (24 August 1811 – 12 November 1844) was an English civil engineer born in London. He is described as "the first Jewish engineer" on his tombstone, in the Sephardic cemetery, Mile End, London. He was the elder son of Abraham Sa ...

, , , , 'Account of the Atmospheric Railway' , - , Charles Hutton Gregory , , , , 'On Railway Cuttings and Embankments' , - , Captain William Scarth Moorsom , , , , 'Description and drawings of the Avon Bridge at Tewkesbury' , - , Thomas Grissell , , , , 'Description and Model of the Scaffolding used in erecting Nelson's Column' , - ,

Charles Manby Charles Manby, FRS FRSA (4 February 1804 – 31 July 1884) was Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1839 to 1856, and engineer of the first iron steamer to cross the English Channel. Fluent in French, he installed gas ...

, , , , 'History of the Canal and Sluices at Katwyk' and 'Description and works of the Amsterdam and Rotterdam Railway' , - , rowspan="3" , 1843 , , Frederick Walter Simms , , , , On the application of horsepower to raising water etc. , - ,

William Pole William Pole FRS FRSE MICE (22 April 181430 December 1900) was an English engineer, astronomer, musician and an authority on Whist. Life He was born in Birmingham on 22 April 1814, the son of Thomas Pole. Pole was apprenticed as an engineer t ...

, , , , 'On the friction of Steam Engines etc.' , - , Thomas Oldham , , , , 'Descriptions and drawings of the Automaton Balance invented by Mr Cotton and used at the Bank of England for weighing sovereigns' , - , rowspan="4" , 1842 , , Robert Thomas Atkinson , , , , 'On the sinking and tubbing or coffering of pits, as practiced in the Coal Districts of the North of England' , - , William Cotton , , , , 'Memoir of Captain Huddart' , - , Chevalier Frederik Willem Conrad , , , , 'History of the Canal of Katwyk (Holland), with an account of the principal Works upon it' , - , James John Wilkinson , , , , 'Historical Account of the various kinds of Sheathing for Vessels' , - , rowspan="5" , 1841 , ,

John Frederick Bateman John Frederick La Trobe Bateman (30 May 1810 – 10 June 1889) was an English civil engineer whose work formed the basis of the modern United Kingdom water supply industry. For more than 50 years from 1835 he designed and constructed reser ...

, , , , 'account of the bann reservoirs, county down, ireland' , - ,

Samuel Seaward John Seaward (January 1786 - 26 March 1858) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. His brother was Samuel Seaward, FRS (see below). Early life Seaward was born the son of a builder in Lambeth, London, in January 1786, and initial ...

, , , , 'the action of auxiliary steam power to sailing vessels upon long voyages' , - , Benjamin Green , , , , 'description of the arched timber viaducts on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway' , - , Thomas Sopwith , , , , 'the construction and use of geological models in connection with civil engineering' , - , Dr Charles Schafhaeutl , , , , 'a new universal photometer' 'on the circumstances under which the explosions of steam boilers frequently occur' , - , rowspan="5" , 1840 , , James Leslie , , , , 'Account of the Works of Dundee Harbour' , - , Robert Mallet , , , , 'On the Corrosion of Cast and Wrought Iron in Water' , - ,

Charles Bourns Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic, Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*k ...

, , , , 'On Setting-out Railway Curves' , - , Henry Chapman , , , , 'Description and Drawings of a Machine for describing the Profile of a Road' , - ,

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, , , , 'Description and Drawing of a Self-acting Wasteboard on the River Ouse' , - , rowspan="7" , 1839 , ,

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, , , , 'the forms of locomotive engines' , - , John Edward Jones , , , , 'Sewage at Westminster' , - ,

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, , , , 'Warming and ventilating buildings' , - ,

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, , , , 'The properties and application of turf and turf coke' , - , Lieutenant Frederick Pollock , , , , 'Coffer dam at Westminster Bridge' , - ,

Robert William Mylne Robert William Mylne, FRS FRSE FGS FRIBA (14 June 1817 – 2 July 1890) was an English architect, civil engineer and geologist. Life Mylne was born in Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, the son of William Chadwell Mylne (1781–1863) and grandson of ...

, , , , 'The well sunk by the New River Company at their reservoir at the Hampstead Road' , - ,

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, , , , 'Description and drawings of Bow Bridge' , -, , rowspan="13" , 1838 , ,

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, , , , Invention of the shield at the Thames Tunnel , - ,

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, , , , Drawing of the shield at the Thames Tunne , - , Eugenius Birch , , , , Drawing of Huddart's rope machinery , - , George Drysdale Dempsey , , , , Drawing of Huddart's rope machinery , - , James Green , , , , Canal Lifts on the Great Western Canal , - , Francis Whishaw , , , , 'History of Westminster Bridge' , - , Lieutenant Denison , , , , 'On the strength of American timber' , - ,

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, , , , 'on the Effective Pressure of Steam in the Cornish Condensing Engine' , - ,

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, , , , 'on the Expansive Action of Steam in the Cylinder of some of the Cornish Engines' , - ,

Josiah Parkes Josiah Parkes (1793–1871) was an English civil engineer, inventor of a deep drainage system. Early life The brother of Joseph Parkes, and third son of John Parkes, a manufacturer, he was born at Warwick on 27 February 1793. He was educated at C ...

, , , , 'On the Evaporation of Water from Steam Boilers' , - ,

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, , , , 'On the strength of Cast Iron' , - ,

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, , , , Particulars of the Construction of the Floating Bridge Lately Established Across the Hamoaze, between Torpoint in the County of Cornwall and Devonport in Devonshire. (Including Plates) , - , Stephen Ballard , , , , 'Drawing and account of the Pont-y-tu Prydd Bridge, in South Wales' , - , rowspan="7" , 1836 , , John Timperley , , , , An Account of the Harbour and Docks at Kingston-Upon-Hull. (Including Plates) , - ,

, , , , 'Particulars on the Construction of Lary Bridge, near Plymouth (Including Plate)' , - ,

, , , , 'Canal Boat experiments' , - , Michael Andrews Borthwick , , , , 'Iron Piling' , - ,

, , , , 'The stone bridge over the Dora at Turin' , - ,

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, , , , 'Theoretical Investigation on the Form of Lock Gates' , - ,

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, , , , 'Improvement on the Spirit Level'

Undated (before 1910) recipients of Telford Medal

Source
Institute of Civil Engineers
* Frederick William Bidder * Reginald Pelham Bolton * Wifred Swanwick Boult * John Richard Brittle * Harley Hugh Dalrymple-Hay, for paper on the Waterloo & City tube * George Deuchars * William Tregarthen Douglass * Frederick Eliot Duckham *

Maurice Fitzmaurice Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice CMG (11 May 1861–17 November 1924) was an Irish civil engineer. He was apprenticed to Benjamin Baker and worked with him on the Forth Railway Bridge before going to Egypt to build the Aswan Dam for which he was ap ...

, for paper on the Blackwall Tunnel, 1897 * Sir Douglas Fox * Sir

Charles Augustus Hartley Sir Charles Augustus Hartley KCMG FRSE MICE (3 February 1825 – 20 February 1915) was an eminent British civil engineer in the Victorian era. Due to his extensive work mapping the longest river in western Europe, he became known as 'The Father ...

David Hay David Hay (born 29 January 1948) is a Scottish former football player and manager. He broke into the Celtic team in the late 1960s, as one of a generation of players who continued a highly successful era for the club. A contract dispute betwe ...

, for paper on the Blackwall Tunnel, 1897 *

Bertram Hopkinson Bertram Hopkinson (11 January 1874 – 26 August 1918) was a British patent lawyer and Professor of Mechanism and Applied Mechanics at Cambridge University. In this position he researched flames, explosions and metallurgy and became a pioneer ...

* Bernard Maxwell Jenkin * Harry Edward Jones * Sidney Richard Lowcock * John Bower Mackenzie * James Tayler Milton * Richard Clerk Parsons * John James Webster * William Willcocks *

William Henry Wheeler William Henry Wheeler (1832–1915) was an English civil engineer, author, architect, inventor and antiquarian. Wheeler was born in Hammersmith in 1832. He read for a degree at King's College London, and in 1867 became a member of the Institutio ...

(1832-1915) * John Head (1832-1881) * Thomas T. Barton * David William Brunton

Telford Premium

Telford Premiums are issued initially as a monetary or book award with multiple awards in most years, some of the awards also going to Medal winners. * 1897 Colonel John Pennycuick "The Diversion of the Periyar." * 1897 Edward Clapp Shankland "Steel Skeleton Construction in Chicago." * 1897 Thomas Holgate "The Enrichment of Coal-Gas." * 1897 Dugald Drummond "Investigation into the Use of Progressive High Pressures in Non-compound Locomotive Engines." *Alexander Pelham Trotter "The Distribution and Measurement of Illumination" *1913 - 1914 William Willox M.A. *1921

Percy Allen Percy Allen may refer to: *Percival Allen (1917–2008), British geologist * Percy Allen (footballer) (1895–1969), English football player *Percy Allen (writer) (1875–1959), drama critic and writer on Shakespeare *Percy Allen (politician) ( ...

- Port improvements at Newcastle, New South Wales * 1926

Joseph Newell Reeson Joseph Newell Reeson (1868–1953) was an Australian civil engineer who pioneered the use of welding for large steel structures. Early life and education Reeson was born in England on 2 June 1868 and attended Kensington Grammar School. He worke ...

“The Influence of Electric Welding in the Design and Fabrication of Plant and Structures.” * 1955

Terence Patrick O'Sullivan Terence Patrick O'Sullivan (1913–1970) was a British civil engineer. He specialised initially in steel and reinforced concrete structures. Later he founded a firm of consulting engineers, T. P. O’Sullivan & Partners, which grew to have offi ...

"The Strengthening of Steel Structures Under Load"

References

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* Awards of the Institution of Civil Engineers Civil engineering awards Awards established in 1835 British science and technology awards