Stella Cunliffe

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Stella Vivian Cunliffe MBE (born 12 January 1917) was Director of Statistics at the British Home Office and the first female President of the Royal Statistical Society (1975-7). She was involved in the Campbell Adamson episode which led to the only occasion when the official nominee for President of the RSS has been rejected by the membership.

Education: Parsons Mead, Ashtead and the London School of Economics (BScEcon).

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[edit] Career

  • Danish Bacon Company, 1939-44
  • Voluntary Relief Work in Europe, 1945-47
  • Arthur Guinness Son and Co. Ltd, 1947-70
  • Head of Research Unit, Home Office, 1970-72
  • Director of Statistics, Home Office, 1972-77 (the first woman to reach this grade in the British Government Statistical Service)
  • Statistical Adviser to the Committee of Enquiry into the Engineering Profession, 1978-80

Her recreations are work with youth organisations, gardening and prison after-care.

She was appointed MBE in 1993.

[edit] Presidential Address to the RSS

[edit] References

  • A Life in Statistics: Beer and Statistics: An Interview with Stella Cunliffe,Significance September 2006, pp. 126-9.
  • David Salsburg The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century, Owl Books (NY), 2002. Chapter 25 has an account of Cunliffe's career based on her presidential address.

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Preceded by
Henry Daniels		 President of the Royal Statistical Society
1975—1977		 Succeeded by
Henry Wynn
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