The Professorship of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

 was established in 1961 with the support of the Royal Statistical Society

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...

 and the aid of donations from various companies and banks. It was the first professorship in the Statistical Laboratory, and the first in Cambridge University explicitly intended for the study of statistics. Until 1973 the Professor was ex officio Director of the Statistical Laboratory.

List of Professors of Mathematical Statistics

• 1962–1985 David Kendall
  David George Kendall
  David George Kendall FRS was an English statistician, who spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He worked with M. S...
  
  
• 1985–1992 David Williams
  David Williams (mathematician)
  David Williams is a Welsh mathematician who works in probability theory.He was educated at Gowerton Grammar School, winning a mathematics scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and went on to obtain a DPhil under the supervision of D. G. Kendall and G. E. H...
  
  
• 1992– Geoffrey Grimmett
  Geoffrey Grimmett
  Geoffrey Richard Grimmett is a mathematician working in probability theory. He is the Professor of Mathematical Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge....