Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) at the very young age of 28. He served as Vice-President of the Royal Society in 1919–1920 and 1924–1928, and as its Foreign Secretary from 1926 to 1929. He was awarded the Hughes Medal in 1909 and the Royal Medal in 1931. He was also awarded the Albert Medal of the Royal Society of Arts in 1918, and the Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1933. He was President of the Physical Society, later the Institute of Physics, from 1903 to 1905, and president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1906. Glazebrook was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1910, was knighted in 1917, and appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1920 New Year War Honours and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in 1934. Personal life He married Frances Gertrude Atkinson of Leeds in 1883; they had a son and three daughters. He died at Limpsfield, Surrey, on 15 December 1935, aged 81. Works A dictionary of applied physics (5 vols.) edited by Richard Glazebrook I. Mechanics, engineering, heat; II. Electricity; III. Meteorology, metrology; IV. Light, sound, radiology, aeronautics, metallurgy. General Index (London : Macmillan, 1922–1923) Mechanics Dynamics (Cambridge University Press, 1911) Mechanics Hydrostatics (Cambridge University Press, 1916) Physical optics (London, New York: Longmans, Green, 1886) Laws and properties of matter (London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1893) Heat: an elementary text-book, theoretical and practical, for colleges and schools (Cambridge University Press, 1894) Light, an elementary text-book, theoretical and practical (Cambridge University Press, 1912) Electricity and magnetism. An elementary text-book, theoretical and practical (Cambridge University Press, 1903) Practical physics (London, Longmans, 1889) James Clerk Maxwell and modern physics (New York: Macmillan, 1896) Science And Industry The Rede Lecture 1917 (Cambridge University Press) Footnotes External links Science and Society Picture Library at www.nmsi.ac.uk Glazebrook's descendants (genealogy). 1854 births 1935 deaths People educated at Dulwich College People educated at Liverpool College Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Liverpool Academics of Imperial College London English physicists Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Knights Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Knights Bachelor Fellows of the Royal Society Royal Medal winners Scientists from Liverpool Members of HM Scientific Civil Service Presidents of the Institute