The President of the Royal Statistical Society is the head of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS). This is not an honorary position; the president actively 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 and was said to have made derogatory comments about statisticians. Henry Wynn was nominated by several fellows (including Adrian Smith, himself later president, and Philip Dawid) and won the election.
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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 Wales (later George V)
- 1921 - 1936 Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII)
List of presidents
19th Century
- 1834 - 1836 Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
- 1836 - 1838 Charles Lemon
- 1838 - 1840 Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam
- 1840 - 1842 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
- 1842 - 1843 Henry Petty-FitzMaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne
- 1843 - 1845 Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
- 1845 - 1847 Thomas Spring Rice, 1st Baron Monteagle
- 1847 - 1849 Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam
- 1849 - 1851 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
- 1851 - 1853 Samuel Jones-Loyd, 1st Baron Overstone
- 1853 - 1855 Charles Wentworth-FitzWilliam, 5th Earl FitzWilliam
- 1855 - 1857 Dudley Ryder, 2nd Earl of Harrowby
- 1857 - 1859 Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby
- 1859 - 1861 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
- 1861 - 1863 John Pakington, 1st Baron Hampton
- 1863 - 1865 William Henry Sykes
- 1865 - 1867 Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
- 1867 - 1869 William Ewart Gladstone
- 1869 - 1871 William Newmarch
- 1871 - 1873 William Farr
- 1873 - 1875 William Guy
- 1875 - 1877 James Heywood
- 1877 - 1879 George Shaw-Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley
- 1879 - 1880 Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey
- 1880 - 1882 James Caird
- 1882 - 1884 Robert Giffen
- 1884 - 1886 Rawson W. Rawson
- 1886 - 1888 George Goschen
- 1888 - 1890 T. Graham Balfour
- 1890 - 1892 Frederic J. Mouat
- 1892 - 1994 Charles Booth
- 1894 - 1896 Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer
- 1896 - 1897 John Biddulph Martin
- 1897 Alfred Edmund Bateman
- 1897 - 1899 Leonard Courtney, 1st Baron Courtney of Penwith
- 1899 - 1900 Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton
- 1900 - 1902 John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
20th Century
- 1902 - 1904 Patrick George Craigie
- 1904 - 1905 Sir Francis Powell, 1st Baronet
- 1905 - 1906 William Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow
- 1906 - 1907 Richard Biddulph Martin
- 1907 - 1909 Sir Charles Dilke, 2nd Baronet
- 1909 - 1910 Jervoise Athelstane Baines
- 1910 - 1912 Lord George Hamilton
- 1912 - 1914 F.Y. Edgeworth
- 1914 - 1915 Reginald Welby, 1st Baron Welby
- 1915 - 1916 Lord George Hamilton
- 1916 - 1918 Bernard Mallet, Registrar General
- 1918 - 1920 Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
- 1920 - 1922 R. Henry Rew
- 1922 - 1924 Alfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott
- 1924 - 1926 Udny Yule
- 1926 - 1928 Viscount D'Abernon
- 1928 - 1930 A. William Flux
- 1930 - 1932 Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp
- 1932 - 1934 James Scorgie Meston, 1st Baron Meston
- 1934 - 1936 Major Greenwood
- 1936 - 1938 Edward Hilton Young, 1st Baron Kennet
- 1938 - 1940 Arthur Lyon Bowley
- 1940 - 1941 Henry William Macrosty
- 1941 Hector Leak
- 1941 - 1943 William Beveridge
- 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 Hill
- 1952 - 1954 Ronald Fisher
- 1954 - 1955 William Piercy, 1st Baron Piercy
- 1955 - 1957 Egon Pearson
- 1957 - 1959 Harry Campion
- 1959 - 1960 Hugh Beaver
- 1960 - 1962 Maurice Kendall
- 1962 - 1964 Joseph Oscar Irwin
- 1964 - 1965 Sir Paul Chambers
- 1965 - 1966 Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett
- 1966 - 1967 M.S. Bartlett
- 1967 - 1968 Frank Yates
- 1968 - 1969 Francis Cockfield, Baron Cockfield
- 1969 - 1970 R. G. D. Allen
- 1970 - 1971 Bernard Benjamin
- 1971 - 1972 George Alfred Barnard
- 1972 - 1973 Harold Wilson
- 1973 - 1974 D.J. Finney
- 1974 - 1975 Henry Daniels
- 1975 - 1977 Stella Cunliffe
- 1977 - 1978 Henry Wynn
- 1978 - 1980 Claus Moser, Baron Moser
- 1980 - 1982 David Cox
- 1982 - 1984 Peter Armitage
- 1984 - 1985 Walter Bodmer
- 1985 - 1986 John A. Nelder
- 1986 - 1987 James Durbin
- 1987 - 1989 John Kingman
- 1989 - 1991 P.G. Moore
- 1991 - 1993 T.M.F. Smith
- 1993 - 1995 D.J. Bartholomew
- 1995 - 1997 Adrian Smith
- 1997 - 1999 R.N. Curnow
- 1999 - 2001 Denise Lievesley
21st Century
- 2001 - 2003 Peter Green
- 2003 - 2005 Andy Grieve
- 2005 - 2007 Tim Holt
- 2008 - David Hand
See also
- President of the American Statistical Association
- President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- President of the Statistical Society of Canada
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