was a movement amongst members to waive the law that limits presidents to one term that had long been in the statute books. He was a member of the organising committee of several road related bodies as well as the International Society for Soil Mechanics in 1957 and the ICE conference on civil engineering problems overseas from 1952 to 1970. He served on the British Standards codes of practice committee from 1940 to 1965, on the Royal Engineers' advisory board from 1950 to 1965, and on the board of the British Nuclear Energy Conference from 1953 to 1958. He was also a member of the Civil Engineering Research Council and its later incarnations, and in 1969 was president of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers. Retirement In 1965, at the age of 65, Glanville retired from the directorship of the RRL and established a private civil and structural engineering consultancy. In March 1965 he had set out his plans for the future of the RRL after his retirement. He noted that the field of road research had changed from 1955 when the RRL was the only body, to one in which the MOT, universities, the Medical Research Council, the Motor Industries Research Association, the Policem the Overseas Development Ministry, the Ministry of Housing and Local Government, and industry bodies were all carrying out research. He stressed the need for this research to be directed by a single body in a way that the RRB was not. He proposed a Highway Research Council be established to fill this role, in a similar manner to the Highway Research Board in the US, and the RRB dissolved. Glanville was asked by the president of the International Road Federation to serve as their consultant, a service he provided for ten years, and organised the papers presented at their world meetings in London and Washington. He was the federation's European representative to their survey of research into roads carried out across 72 counties. Glanville acted as an expert witness for the Ministry of Transport and the Department of the Environment in court cases and also worked as an arbitrator. William Glanville died suddenly of a stroke, on 30 June 1976, at his home in Northwood, Middlesex. Only two days prior to his death he had attended a CIRIA meeting. Honours Glanville obtained the degrees of PhD in 1925 and DSc in 1930 in the course