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1967: Hugh Graham Conway
Hugh Graham Conway (1914-1989)
82nd President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Conway was born in Vancouver, Canada in 1914.
He was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh, and Cambridge University, where he graduated with an honours degree in Mechanical Sciences.
In 1938 he joined Messier Aircraft Equipment Limited, and was Chief Engineer there. He left in 1945 to join the Aviation Division of the Dunlop Rubber Company as Chief Engineer. In 1947, he was involved with the formation of British Messier Ltd. as a subsidiary of the Bristol Aeroplane Co., and was Technical Director of British Messier until 1954.
He then moved to Short Brothers and Harland Ltd., Belfast, as Chief Engineer, and the following year he was appointed to the Board. In 1961 he was made Joint Managing Director. In 1964 he was appointed Managing Director of Bristol Siddeley Engines, and when this company was merged with Rolls Royce in 1966, he became a Director of Rolls Royce Ltd.
He was a member of the Decimal Currency Board from 1967-1971, and served on the Design Council from 1971 until 1976.
He was President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1967.
He died in 1989.
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