 He became a member of the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers in 1889 and would be elected an honorary member in 1909.He was elected to the presidency of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in 1916, the first of several such offices.In 1922, during his tenure as chairman of the Imperial Resources Bureau, he became the first president of the Institution of Professional Civil Servants an office to which he was successfully re-elected every year until his death.