Electrical Engineers in 1901 and a Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1912. On 7 May 1931, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). He was awarded the Telford Medal and the James Watt Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers. The Jenkin Building of the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford is named after him. References 1865 births 1940 deaths English railway mechanical engineers Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of New College, Oxford People educated at Edinburgh Academy Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Brasenose College, Oxford Royal Navy officers of World War I Royal Air Force officers Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Society People from Surrey