Historical Summary
| 1917 | First meeting of The Association of Quarry Managers was held in Caernarfon (19 October). |
| 1918 | First Annual General Meeting (12 January). First issue of The Quarry Managers’ Journal (November). |
| 1919 | Trade Members Section established. |
| 1920 | Name of the association was changed to The Institution
of Quarry Managers. Sir Henry Maybury became the first President. |
| 1921 | First Annual Conference was held in London. |
| 1922 | First quarry visits organised by IQ made to Mountsorrel
and Enderby (Leics). First meeting of the Executive Council held in Shrewsbury. |
| 1924 | Women were admitted to Conferences for the first time. The Quarry Managers Journal Ltd was formed. |
| 1925 | Benevolent Fund established. Mrs Anne Greaves, the first lady member, was elected. Institute’s office was moved from Caernarfon to Birmingham. |
| 1926 | First award for a technical paper, the Maybury Medal, was presented. |
| 1927 | Name changed to The Institute of Quarrying. Trade Members Section became the Associates’ Section. |
| 1930 | Education Committee was established. |
| 1936 | Membership Committee was formed. |
| 1937 | Committee formed to consider the question of the Institute applying for a Royal Charter (later turned down by Privy Council). |
| 1940 | Institute headquarters in Fleet Street, London, were evacuated to Tintagel, Cornwall. |
| 1943 | Sub-committee was elected to draft the syllabus for the Institute’s first examination. |
| 1947 | Designatory letters (MIQ, FIQ etc) adopted. |
| 1948 | First examinations developed by the Institute were set. First meeting of the Australian branch was held in Sydney. |
| 1955 | First of the Short Courses in Quarry Practice held at Ashorne Hill. |
| 1957 | The Institute’s founder and General Secretary, Simon McPherson, died at 80 (still in office!) and was succeeded by his son John. |
| 1958 | Institute became incorporated as a company limited by guarantee. Coat of Arms presented as a gift from the outgoing President, Hugh Symington. Constitution changed to require every applicant for corporate membership to be qualified by examination. |
| 1960 | John McPherson died after a long illness. |
| 1961 | Brian Fish appointed as Technical Officer. Australian branch was formed into a Division with branches in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland. |
| 1967 | Diploma course in Quarrying was established at the Doncaster Technical College in South Yorkshire. |
| 1968 | New Zealand branch formed. |
| 1969 | South African branch formed. |
| 1971 | Assisted Private Study course, leading to the Institute’s Associate Membership (now Professional) Examination was started. |
| 1972 | Hong Kong branch was formed. |
| 1974 | Headquarters moved from London to Nottingham. First McPherson Memorial Lecture was presented at the Annual Conference. |
| 1978 | Membership rules changed to create Honorary Fellow and Associate Member grades. |
| 1980 | Citation Award introduced. |
| 1989 | First international symposium held in conjunction with
Hillhead Quarry Exhibition. Malaysian branch formed. |
| 1996 | Constitution changed to create Affiliated National Institute status. |
| 1997 | First formal Business Plan adopted by Council. Australian Division becomes first Affiliated National Institute. First meeting of Presidents’ Committee held in New Zealand. International Citation Award introduced. Sub-branch of Institute of Quarrying Australia was established in the Philippines. |
| 1999 | Membership structure simplified to Student, Associate,
Member, Fellow and Hon. Fellow. Associates Section ceases to exist; Supply Industry Committee created. Institute of Quarrying New Zealand becomes second Affiliated National Institute. Code of Conduct adopted. |
| 2000 | Institute of Quarrying Southern Africa branch is the first Affiliated National Branch. |
| 2002 | Institute of Quarrying Malaysia becomes an affiliated National Institute |
| 2003 | Supply Industry Committee dissolved CPD record scheme introduced |