Engineering in 1987 and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1993. He has been awarded the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers (1998), the James Alfred Ewing Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers (1995), the Brooker Medal of the Welding Institute (1996), the Ludwig Mond Prize (1971) and James Clayton Prize (1982) of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Arata Prize of the International Institute of Welding (1997) and an Honorary Fellowship of the Welding Institute (2007). He delivered the Institution of Mechanical Engineers John Player Lecture in 1981 and again in 2006, the Brunel International Lecture of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 11 places around the world in 2000 and the Institute of Materials Finniston Lecture also in 2000. He was President of the Manchester Association of Engineers from 2003 to 2005 and President of the Welding Institute from 2004 to 2006. He was appointed an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2008 for service to nuclear safety as a result of his contributions to structural integrity of nuclear power plant. Community Involvement He was a governor of The King's School, Macclesfield from 1986 to 2009 and Chairman of Governors from 2005 to 2009. He continued his involvement in cricket after retiring from playing by becoming President of Macclesfield Cricket Club from 1996 to 2010. After retiring from academic life he was asked to assist in local community affairs in Bollington and he has been chairman of the steering committees for the Bollington Parish Plan (2004), the update to the Bollington Town Plan (2008) and the Bollington Neighbourhood Plan (made 2018). Works Over 200 technical research publications in the general subject area of structural integrity and fracture mechanics. References Fellows of the Royal Society Officers of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering Academics of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology Living people People educated at The King's School, Chester Year of birth missing (living people) People from Hawarden