The President (Professor P. G. Moore): After taking his degree at Cambridge, Sidney Benjamin joined the Prudential, becoming a Fellow of the Institute in 1957. Shortly after that he left the Prudential to join Ferranti Computers, but after a few years with them he moved on to the consulting firm of Bacon and Woodrow where he has remained ever since. He has been extremely active in Institute affairs, having served on Council with the statutory breaks for over 20 years. He has always been a staunch defender of the concept of professionalism, but his greatest contribution to Council has been his Chairmanship of the Research Committee, where he has done so much to stimulate research by a generation of members of the profession.