1950: Dr Stanley Fabes Dorey

1950: Dr Stanley Fabes Dorey

 

Dr Stanley Fabes Dorey (1891-1972)

65th President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers

Dorey was born in Hornsey, London in 1891. He attended Owen’s School, London, then served an apprenticeship at the Royal Dockyard, Chatham. He received his academic training at Armstrong College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he won a Whitworth Exhibition and a Lloyd’s Register of Shipping Scholarship in Marine Engineering.

During the First World War, he served as an Engineer Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. After the war he spent a short time with Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth and Co. Ltd., following appointment as an Engineer and Ship Surveyor to Lloyd’s Register of Shipping. He was posted to the staff of the Chief Engineer Surveyor in 1924, and at the end of 1932 was appointed Chief Engineer Surveyor.

He received the CBE in 1946 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1948. He was a President of the Institute of Refrigeration, the Institution of Naval Architects, and was President of the IMechE in 1950. He was also a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights.

He died in 1972.

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