Cambridge University. Later in 1881 Siemens Brothers took over a project to provide the world's first public electricity supply in Godalming, Surrey. This project was never a viable business but the company undertook it in order to gain more experience in the lighting industry. Siemens had been a director of Siemens Brothers since it became a limited company in 1880 and was made managing director in 1889, a post he was to hold until a significant reorganization replaced him, though he remained on the board of directors until his retirement in 1918. He was appointed to be a British delegate to the International Electrical Congress in 1893 and to a similar congress in Paris in 1901. In the same year as the Paris congress he was appointed to the board of the new National Physical Laboratory in Teddington. He served as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers between November 1910 and November 1911. In retirement he lived at Westover Hall, Milford-on-Sea, Hampshire, where he died, from heart failure, on 16 February 1928. References Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers 1847 births 1928 deaths Businesspeople from Hanover German military personnel of the Franco-Prussian War Alexander Prussian Army personnel Recipients of the Iron Cross (1870), 2nd class People from the Kingdom of Hanover German emigrants to the United Kingdom Military personnel from Hanover