Stella Cunliffe

Stella Cunliffe

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).

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.

Presidential Address to the RSS

* Interaction "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)," Vol. 139, No. 1. (1976), pp. 1-19.

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.

External links

* [http://parish.ashtead.org/harv03/stella.htm A Glimpse into the Life of ...]
* [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/cunliffe.gifPhotograph] on the [http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/people/welcome.htm Portraits of Statisticians] page


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