Editing Frederick Abel (section)

==Leadership and honours==
He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1860 and received their [[Royal Medal]] in 1887. He was president of the [[Chemical Society]] (1875–77), of the [[Institution of Electrical Engineers]] (then the Society of Telegraph Engineers) (1877), of the [[Institute of Chemistry]] (1881–82) and of the [[Society of Chemical Industry]] (1882–83).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.soci.org/about-us/history/sci-presidents
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|access-date=22 August 2024}}</ref> He was also president of the [[Iron and Steel Institute]] in 1891<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iom3.org/iom3-presidents |title=IOM3 Presidents  |website=Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining |language=en |access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref> and was awarded the [[Bessemer Gold Medal]] in 1897 for his work on problems of steel manufacture.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.iom3.org/awards-archive#Bessemer |title=Awards archive |website=Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining |language=en |access-date=4 September 2018}}</ref> He was awarded the [[Telford Medal]] by the [[Institution of Civil Engineers]] in 1879.

He was made a [[Order of the Bath|Commander of the Order of the Bath]] (CB) in 1877.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=24517 |date=30 October 1877 |page=5920 }}</ref> and [[Knight bachelor|knighted]] on 20 April 1883<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=25225 |date=27 April 1883 |page=2240 }}</ref> 
He took an important part in the work of the Inventions Exhibition (London) in 1885, and in 1887 became organizing secretary and first director of the [[Imperial College London|Imperial Institute]], a position he held till his death in 1902. He was [[Rede Lecturer]] and received an honorary doctorate from [[Cambridge University]] in 1888.<ref>{{acad|id= ABL888FA |name=Abel, Frederick Augustus}}</ref> He was upgraded [[Order of the Bath|Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]] (KCB) on 3 February 1891,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26131 |date=3 February 1891 |page=615 }}</ref> created a [[baronet]], of Cadogan Place in the Parish of Chelsea in the County of London, on 25 May 1893<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=26406 |date=26 May 1893 |page=3055 }}</ref> and made a [[Royal Victorian Order|Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO)]] on 8 March 1901.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=27292 |date=8 March 1901 |page=1647}}</ref>

Abel died at his residence in [[Whitehall Court]], London, on 6 September 1902, aged 75,<ref name="The Times-1902">{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Obituary – Sir Frederick Abel |date=8 September 1902 |page=8 |issue=36867}}</ref> and was buried in [[Nunhead Cemetery]], London.<ref name="Greenwood-1999" /> The baronetcy became extinct on his death.