Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey CB, CBE was an Irish engineer from County Tipperary who created the Sankey diagram. He served as a captain of the British Army in the Royal Engineers until leaving to become an engineer. He returned to serve as a staff officer during World War I which earned him a CBE.
He was also President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.[1]
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| Preceded by Edward Hopkinson |
President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1920–1921 |
Succeeded by Henry Selby Hele-Shaw |