President of the Royal Statistical Society
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The President of the Royal Statistical Society is the head of the Royal Statistical Society
(RSS), elected biannually by the Fellows of the Society. (The time-period between elections ha varied in the past, and in fact elections only rarely occur.).
The President oversees the running of the Society and chairs its council meetings. In recent years, almost all presidents have been nominated following many years' service to the Society, although some have been nominated to mark their eminence in society generally, such as Harold Wilson
.
There has only been one contested election in the Society's history; in 1977, many fellows objected to the nomination by the Council of Campbell Adamson
because he was not a statistician, was said to have made derogatory comments about statisticians, and principally because in the previous year he had been defeated in an election to the Council of the Society, and fellows felt that he was being foisted upon the Society by the current 'establishment' in an essentially undemocratic fashion. Henry Wynn
was nominated by several fellows (including Adrian Smith
, himself later president, and Philip Dawid
) and won the election.
Royal Statistical Society
The Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
(RSS), elected biannually by the Fellows of the Society. (The time-period between elections ha varied in the past, and in fact elections only rarely occur.).
The President oversees the running of the Society and chairs its council meetings. In recent years, almost all presidents have been nominated following many years' service to the Society, although some have been nominated to mark their eminence in society generally, such as Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...
.
There has only been one contested election in the Society's history; in 1977, many fellows objected to the nomination by the Council of Campbell Adamson
Campbell Adamson
Sir Campbell Adamson was a British industrialist who was best known for his work as Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry from 1969 to 1976...
because he was not a statistician, was said to have made derogatory comments about statisticians, and principally because in the previous year he had been defeated in an election to the Council of the Society, and fellows felt that he was being foisted upon the Society by the current 'establishment' in an essentially undemocratic fashion. Henry Wynn
Henry Wynn
Henry Philip Wynn is a British statistician.He gained a BA in Mathematics from Oxford and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Imperial College. He was appointed a Lecturer and then Reader at Imperial College before moving to City University in 1985 as Professor of Mathematical Statistics...
was nominated by several fellows (including Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith (academic)
Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith FRS is a distinguished British statistician and formerly Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously at Imperial College, London where he was head of the Mathematics Department. He is a member of the governing body of the London Business...
, himself later president, and Philip Dawid
Philip Dawid
Alexander Philip Dawid is Professor of Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge...
) and won the election.
Honorary Presidents
Three Princes of Wales have been Honorary President:- 1872 - 1901 Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII)
- 1902 - 1910 George, Prince of WalesGeorge V of the United KingdomGeorge V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
(later George V) - 1921 - 1936 Edward, Prince of WalesEdward VIII of the United KingdomEdward VIII was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth, and Emperor of India, from 20 January to 11 December 1936.Before his accession to the throne, Edward was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall and Rothesay...
(later Edward VIII)
19th Century
- 1834 - 1836 Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of LansdowneHenry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of LansdowneHenry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG, PC, FRS , known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809 and then as The Earl of Kerry to 1818, was a British statesman...
- 1836 - 1838 Charles LemonCharles LemonSir Charles Lemon, 2nd Baronet Lemon of Carclew was a British Member of Parliament for several constituencies and a baronet.-Service in Parliament:...
- 1838 - 1840 Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliamCharles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliamCharles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam KG was a British nobleman. He was three times President of the Royal Statistical Society ....
- 1840 - 1842 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of HarrowbyDudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of HarrowbyDudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was a British politician...
- 1842 - 1843 Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of LansdowneHenry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of LansdowneHenry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne KG, PC, FRS , known as Lord Henry Petty from 1784 to 1809 and then as The Earl of Kerry to 1818, was a British statesman...
- 1843 - 1845 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyAnthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of ShaftesburyAnthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury KG , styled Lord Ashley from 1811 to 1851, was an English politician and philanthropist, one of the best-known of the Victorian era and one of the main proponents of Christian Zionism.-Youth:He was born in London and known informally as Lord Ashley...
- 1845 - 1847 Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle
- 1847 - 1849 Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliamCharles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliamCharles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam KG was a British nobleman. He was three times President of the Royal Statistical Society ....
- 1849 - 1851 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of HarrowbyDudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of HarrowbyDudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was a British politician...
- 1851 - 1853 Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron OverstoneSamuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron OverstoneSamuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone was a British banker and politician.-Background and education:Loyd was the only son of Reverend Lewis Loyd and Sarah, daughter of John Jones, a Manchester banker...
- 1853 - 1855 Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliamCharles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliamCharles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam KG was a British nobleman. He was three times President of the Royal Statistical Society ....
- 1855 - 1857 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of HarrowbyDudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of HarrowbyDudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby KG, PC, FRS , styled Viscount Sandon between 1809 and 1847, was a British politician...
- 1857 - 1859 Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of DerbyEdward Stanley, 15th Earl of DerbyEdward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby KG, PC, FRS , known as Lord Stanley from 1844 to 1869, was a British statesman...
- 1859 - 1861 John Russell, 1st Earl RussellJohn Russell, 1st Earl RussellJohn Russell, 1st Earl Russell, KG, GCMG, PC , known as Lord John Russell before 1861, was an English Whig and Liberal politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century....
- 1861 - 1863 John Pakington, 1st Baron HamptonJohn Pakington, 1st Baron HamptonJohn Somerset Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton GCB, PC FRS , known as Sir John Pakington, Bt from 1846 to 1874, was a British Conservative politician.-Background and education:...
- 1863 - 1865 William Henry SykesWilliam Henry SykesColonel William Henry Sykes, FRS was an Indian Army officer, politician and ornithologist.Sykes was born near Bradford in Yorkshire, and joined the Bombay Army, a part of the armed forces of the Honourable East India Company, in 1804, returning to Britain in 1837...
- 1865 - 1867 Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron HoughtonRichard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron HoughtonRichard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton FRS was an English poet, patron of literature and politician.-Background and education:...
- 1867 - 1869 William Ewart GladstoneWilliam Ewart GladstoneWilliam Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...
- 1869 - 1871 William NewmarchWilliam NewmarchWilliam Newmarch was a Yorkshireman, English banker, economist and statistician born at Thirsk, Yorkshire.He took his schooling at York, and, as a young man, held some clerkly appointments in that city...
- 1871 - 1873 William FarrWilliam FarrWilliam Farr was a nineteenth-century British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics.-Early life:He was born in Kenley, Shropshire, England to poor parents...
- 1873 - 1875 William GuyWilliam GuyWilliam Augustus Guy was a British physician and medical statistician.-Life:He was born in Chichester and educated at Christ's Hospital and Guy's Hospital; he then studied at the University of Heidelberg and the University of Paris before getting a Bachelor of Medicine degree from the University...
- 1875 - 1877 James HeywoodJames Heywood (philanthropist)James Heywood was a British MP, philanthropist and social reformer.He was born in Manchester, the son of banker Nathaniel and Ann Heywood, and was the brother of Benjamin Heywood and Thomas Heywood and grandson of Thomas Percival...
- 1877 - 1879 George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron EversleyGeorge Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron EversleyGeorge John Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley PC, DL was a British Liberal Party politician. In a ministerial career that spanned thirty years, he was twice First Commissioner of Works and also served as Postmaster General and President of the Local Government Board.-Background and...
- 1879 - 1880 Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl BrasseyThomas Brassey, 1st Earl BrasseyThomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey GCB, JP, DL, TD , was a British Liberal Party politician, Governor of Victoria and founder of The Naval Annual.-Background and education:...
- 1880 - 1882 James Caird
- 1882 - 1884 Robert GiffenRobert GiffenSir Robert Giffen KCB , was a Scottish statistician and economist. He was born at Strathaven, Lanarkshire.He entered a solicitor's office in Glasgow, and while in that city attended courses at the university. He drifted into journalism, and after working for the Stirling Journal he went to London...
- 1884 - 1886 Rawson W. RawsonRawson W. RawsonRawson W. Rawson , was a government official and statistician.He was educated at Eton and entered the Board of Trade at the age of seventeen. He served as private secretary to three successive Vice-Presidents of the Board, Mr Poulett Thompson, Alexander Baring and William Ewart Gladstone...
- 1886 - 1888 George GoschenGeorge GoschenGeorge Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen was a British statesman and businessman best remembered for being "forgotten" by Lord Randolph Churchill...
- 1888 - 1890 T. Graham Balfour
- 1890 - 1892 Frederic J. MouatFrederic J. MouatFrederic John Mouat was a British surgeon.He was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of an army surgeon, and trained at University College London and Edinburgh University, qualifying as a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1838. He entered the Indian Medical Service and was posted...
- 1892 - 1894 Charles BoothCharles Booth (philanthropist)Charles Booth was an English philanthropist and social researcher. He is most famed for his innovative work on documenting working class life in London at the end of the 19th century, work that along with that of Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree influenced government intervention against poverty in the...
- 1894 - 1896 Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron FarrerThomas Farrer, 1st Baron FarrerThomas Henry Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer was an English civil servant and statistician.Farrer was the son of Thomas Farrer, a solicitor in Lincoln's Inn Fields. Born in London, he was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1840...
- 1896 - 1897 John Biddulph Martin
- 1897 Alfred Edmund Bateman
- 1897 - 1899 Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of PenwithLeonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of PenwithLeonard Henry Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith PC was a British politician, academic and man of letters...
- 1899 - 1900 Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
- 1900 - 1902 John Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron AveburyJohn Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
20th Century
- 1902 - 1904 Patrick George Craigie
- 1904 - 1905 Sir Francis Powell, 1st BaronetSir Francis Powell, 1st BaronetSir Francis Sharp Powell, 1st Baronet was an English Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1863 and 1910....
- 1905 - 1906 William Onslow, 4th Earl of OnslowWilliam Onslow, 4th Earl of OnslowWilliam Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow GCMG, PC was a British Conservative politician. He held several governmental positions between 1880 and 1905 and was also Governor of New Zealand between 1889 and 1892....
- 1906 - 1907 Richard Biddulph Martin
- 1907 - 1909 Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd BaronetSir Charles Dilke, 2nd BaronetSir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Baronet PC was an English Liberal and reformist politician. Touted as a future prime minister, his aspirations to higher political office were effectively terminated in 1885, after a notorious and well-publicised divorce case.-Background and education:Dilke was the...
- 1909 - 1910 Jervoise Athelstane Baines
- 1910 - 1912 Lord George HamiltonLord George HamiltonLord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:...
- 1912 - 1914 F.Y. Edgeworth
- 1914 - 1915 Reginald Welby, 1st Baron WelbyReginald Welby, 1st Baron WelbyReginald Earle Welby, 1st Baron Welby GCB, PC was a British peer, former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and former President of the Royal Statistical Society.-Early life and education:...
- 1915 - 1916 Lord George HamiltonLord George HamiltonLord George Francis Hamilton GCSI, PC, JP was a British Conservative Party politician of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Background:...
- 1916 - 1918 Bernard MalletBernard MalletSir Bernard Mallet, KCB was a British civil servant.He was the son of Sir Louis Mallet.. He was educated at Clifton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He became private secretary to Arthur Balfour. Later, he was Registrar General and President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1916 to 1918...
, Registrar GeneralRegistrar GeneralGeneral Register Office, in England and Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and many Commonwealth nations, is the government agency responsible for civil registration - the recording of vital records such as births, deaths, and marriages... - 1918 - 1920 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount SamuelHerbert Samuel, 1st Viscount SamuelHerbert Louis Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel GCB OM GBE PC was a British politician and diplomat.-Early years:...
- 1920 - 1922 R. Henry Rew
- 1922 - 1924 Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron EmmottAlfred Emmott, 1st Baron EmmottAlfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott GCMG, GBE, PC was a British businessman and Liberal Party politician.-Background and education:...
- 1924 - 1926 Udny YuleUdny YuleGeorge Udny Yule FRS , usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician, born at Beech Hill, a house in Morham near Haddington, Scotland and died in Cambridge, England. His father, also George Udny Yule, and a nephew, were knighted. His uncle was the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule...
- 1926 - 1928 Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'AbernonEdgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'AbernonEdgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon, GCB, GCMG, PC, FRS was a British politician, diplomat, art collector and author.-Early life:...
- 1928 - 1930 A. William FluxA. William FluxSir Alfred William Flux CB was a British economist and statistician.Flux was born in the Landport district of Portsmouth in 1867, the son of a cement maker. He attended Portsmouth Grammar School then studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge where he was a Senior Wrangler in 1887...
- 1930 - 1932 Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron StampJosiah Stamp, 1st Baron StampJosiah Charles Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, was a British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician, writer, and banker. He was a director of the Bank of England and chairman of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.Josiah was born in London, the third of seven...
- 1932 - 1934 James Scorgie Meston, 1st Baron Meston
- 1934 - 1936 Major GreenwoodMajor GreenwoodMajor Greenwood FRS was an English epidemiologist and statistician.Major Greenwood junior was born in Shoreditch in London's East End, the only child of a doctor in general practice there...
- 1936 - 1938 Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron KennetEdward Hilton Young, 1st Baron KennetSir Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet, GBE, PC , was a British politician and writer.- Family and early life :...
- 1938 - 1940 Arthur Lyon BowleyArthur Lyon BowleySir Arthur Lyon Bowley was an English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys....
- 1940 - 1941 Henry William Macrosty
- 1941 Hector Leak
- 1941 - 1943 William BeveridgeWilliam BeveridgeWilliam Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB was a British economist and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945.Lord...
- 1943 - 1945 Charles Ernest Snow
- 1945 - 1947 Frederick Marquis, 1st Earl of Woolton
- 1947 - 1949 David Heron
- 1949 - 1950 Geoffrey Heyworth, 1st Baron Heyworth
- 1950 - 1952 Austin Bradford HillAustin Bradford HillSir Austin Bradford Hill FRS , English epidemiologist and statistician, pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, was the first to demonstrate the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer...
- 1952 - 1954 Ronald FisherRonald FisherSir Ronald Aylmer Fisher FRS was an English statistician, evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and geneticist. Among other things, Fisher is well known for his contributions to statistics by creating Fisher's exact test and Fisher's equation...
- 1954 - 1955 William Piercy, 1st Baron PiercyWilliam Piercy, 1st Baron PiercyWilliam Piercy, 1st Baron Piercy CBE , was a British economist, civil servant, businessman and financier. He is best remembered as Chairman of the Industrial & Commercial Finance Corporation from 1945 to 1964.-Early life:...
- 1955 - 1957 Egon PearsonEgon PearsonEgon Sharpe Pearson, CBE FRS was the only son of Karl Pearson, and like his father, a leading British statistician....
- 1957 - 1959 Harry CampionHarry CampionSir Harry Campion, KCB, CBE was a British statistician and the first director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom. He was also first director of the United Nations Statistical Office...
- 1959 - 1960 Hugh BeaverHugh BeaverSir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, KBE, was a British engineer, industrialist, and founder of the Guinness Book of Records.-Biography:...
- 1960 - 1962 Maurice KendallMaurice KendallSir Maurice George Kendall, FBA was a British statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him.-Education and early life:...
- 1962 - 1964 Joseph Oscar IrwinJoseph Oscar IrwinJoseph Oscar Irwin British statistician who advanced the use of statistical methods in biological assay and other fields of laboratory medicine. Irwin’s grasp of modern mathematical statistics distinguished him not only from older medical statisticians like Major Greenwood but contemporaries like...
- 1964 - 1965 Sir Paul ChambersSir Paul ChambersSir Paul Chambers was a British civil servant and industrialist and Chairman of ICI.He was born in London and educated at the City of London School before going up to study economics at the London School of Economics....
- 1965 - 1966 Leonard Henry Caleb TippettLeonard Henry Caleb TippettLeonard Henry Caleb Tippett was an English physicist and statistician.Born in London, Tippett graduated in physics in the early 1920s at Imperial College. He studied for his Master of Science in statistics under Professor Karl Pearson at the Galton Laboratory, University College London and R. A....
- 1966 - 1967 M.S. Bartlett
- 1967 - 1968 Frank YatesFrank YatesFrank Yates FRS was one of the pioneers of 20th century statistics.He was born in Manchester. Yates was the eldest of five children, and the only boy, born to Edith and Percy Yates. His father was a seed merchant. He attended Wadham House, a private school, before gaining a scholarship to Clifton...
- 1968 - 1969 Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield
- 1969 - 1970 R. G. D. AllenR. G. D. AllenSir Roy George Douglas Allen, CBE, FBA was an English economist, mathematician and statistician.Allen was born in Worcester and educated at the Royal Grammar School Worcester, from which he won a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...
- 1970 - 1971 Bernard BenjaminBernard Benjamin-External links:* :...
- 1971 - 1972 George Alfred BarnardGeorge Alfred BarnardGeorge Alfred Barnard was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control.-Biography:...
- 1972 - 1973 Harold WilsonHarold WilsonJames Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...
- 1973 - 1974 D.J. Finney
- 1974 - 1975 Henry DanielsHenry DanielsHenry Ellis Daniels FRS was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society , and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a Silver medal in 1947. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980...
- 1975 - 1977 Stella CunliffeStella CunliffeStella Vivian Cunliffe MBE was a British statistician.She was educated at Parsons Mead, Ashtead and the London School of Economics where she gained a BSc .- Career :...
- 1977 - 1978 Henry WynnHenry WynnHenry Philip Wynn is a British statistician.He gained a BA in Mathematics from Oxford and a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Imperial College. He was appointed a Lecturer and then Reader at Imperial College before moving to City University in 1985 as Professor of Mathematical Statistics...
- 1978 - 1980 Claus Moser, Baron MoserClaus Moser, Baron MoserClaus Adolf Moser, Baron Moser, KCB, CBE is a British statistician who has made major contributions in both academia and the Civil Service...
- 1980 - 1982 David CoxDavid Cox (statistician)Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS is a prominent British statistician.-Early years:Cox studied mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch.-Career:He was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft...
- 1982 - 1984 Peter ArmitagePeter ArmitagePeter Armitage is a statistician specialising in medical statistics.Peter Armitage attended Huddersfield College and went on to read mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. Armitage belonged to the generation of mathematicians who came to maturity in the Second World War...
- 1984 - 1985 Walter BodmerWalter BodmerSir Walter Bodmer is a German-born British human geneticist. His father being Jewish, the family left Germany in 1938 and settled in Manchester. Bodmer has developed models for population genetics and done work on the human leukocyte antigen system and the use of somatic cell hybrids for human...
- 1985 - 1986 John A. Nelder
- 1986 - 1987 James DurbinJames DurbinJames Durbin is a British statistician and econometrician, known particularly for his work on time series analysis and serial correlation.He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge where his contemporaries included David Cox and Denis Sargan...
- 1987 - 1989 John KingmanJohn KingmanSir John Frank Charles Kingman, born on 28 August 1939 in Beckenham, Kent, is a British mathematician.He was N. M. Rothschild and Sons Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Director of the Isaac Newton Institute at the University of Cambridge from 2001 until 2006, when he was succeeded by Sir...
- 1989 - 1991 Peter G. Moore
- 1991 - 1993 T.M.F. SmithT.M.F. SmithT. M. F. "Fred" Smith is a British statistician known for his research in survey sampling.Fred Smith gained his first degree in 1959. He has been professor of mathematics at the University of Southampton....
- 1993 - 1995 D.J. BartholomewD.J. BartholomewDavid John Bartholomew FBA is a British statistician who was President of the Royal Statistical Society 2002–2003.In 1955 he married Marian Elsie Lake, and they have two daughters.-Career:...
- 1995 - 1997 Adrian SmithAdrian Smith (academic)Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith FRS is a distinguished British statistician and formerly Principal of Queen Mary, University of London. He was previously at Imperial College, London where he was head of the Mathematics Department. He is a member of the governing body of the London Business...
- 1997 - 1999 R.N. Curnow
- 1999 - 2001 Denise LievesleyDenise LievesleyDenise Lievesley is a British social statistician and Professor of Statistics at King's College London as well as head of its School of Social Science & Public Policy...
21st Century
- 2001 - 2003 Peter GreenPeter Green (statistician)Peter Green FRS is a British Bayesian statistician. He holds a chair in statistics at Bristol University. He is distinguished for his contributions to computational statistics, in particular his contributions to spatial statistics and semi-parametric regression models and also his development of...
- 2003 - 2005 Andy Grieve
- 2005 - 2007 Tim HoltTim Holt (statistician)David Holt CB is a British statistician who is Professor Emeritus of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton...
- 2008 - 2009 David HandDavid Hand (statistician)David John Hand is a British statistician. His research interests include multivariate statistics, classification methods, pattern recognition, the computational statistics and the foundations of statistics....
- 2010 - 2010 Bernard SilvermanBernard SilvermanBernard Silverman FRS is a British statistician. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009...
(resigned Feb 2010; replaced pro tem by David Hand) - 2011 – Valerie IshamValerie IshamValerie Susan Isham is a British applied probabilist and currently President of the Royal Statistical Society.Isham's research interests in include point processes, spatial processes, spatio-temporal processes and population processes. She went to Imperial College London where she was a student...
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