• Henry William Macrosty (1865 – 19 January 1941) was President of the Royal Statistical Society between 1940–41. Macrosty was active in the Fabian Society...
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    William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge, KCB (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and Liberal politician who was a progressive...
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    Colonel William Henry Sykes, FRS (25 January 1790 – 16 June 1872) was an English naturalist who served with the British military in India and was specifically...
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    married until his death 59 years later. They had eight children together: William Henry Gladstone MP (1840–1891); married Hon. Gertrude Stuart (daughter of...
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    Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, KG, PC, FRS (21 July 1826 – 21 April 1893; known as Lord Stanley from 1851 to 1869) was a British statesman...
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    Henry Hartley Fowler, 1st Viscount Wolverhampton, GCSI, PC (16 May 1830 – 25 February 1911) was a British solicitor and Liberal politician who sat in...
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    Ellen Frances Charlotte Spring Rice (died 2 January 1891), married Sir Henry Taylor in 1839. Hon. Mary Alicia Pery Spring Rice (died 11 May 1875), served...
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    a New Eastern Question, p. 153, and Ingrams, Palestine Papers, p. 105. Henry Laurens, La Question de Palestine, Fayard, Paris 1999 vol.1 p.523 Ingrams...
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    Russell (20 October 1838 – 9 May 1880). She married Henry Villiers (the son of The Honorable Henry Montagu Villiers) on 16 April 1861. They had ten children...
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    Kennet 1938–1940 Arthur Lyon Bowley 1940–1941 Henry William Macrosty 1941 Hector Leak 1941–1943 William Beveridge 1943–1945 Ernest Charles Snow 1945–1947...
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    William Farr CB (30 November 1807 – 14 April 1883) was a British epidemiologist, regarded as one of the founders of medical statistics. William Farr was...
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    domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Lansdowne, William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of s.v. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol...
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    the Social & Behavioral Sciences, pp. 4170–4175. Abstract. Spiegel, Henry William. The Growth of Economic Thought. Ed. Durham & London. Duke University...
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    Chichester. (Anthony) Francis Henry Ashley-Cooper, second son (b. 13 March 1833 – 13 May 1849) (Anthony) Maurice William Ashley-Cooper, third son (22 July...
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    the decasualisation of labour. Booth publicly criticised the claims of Henry Hyndman, the leader of the Social Democratic Federation, Britain's first...
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    British Museum's collection. He spoke in support of the evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley at the famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate. During the 1860s, he...
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    Kennet 1938–1940 Arthur Lyon Bowley 1940–1941 Henry William Macrosty 1941 Hector Leak 1941–1943 William Beveridge 1943–1945 Ernest Charles Snow 1945–1947...
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    Scotland and Ireland. He was born in London, the son of Wilhelm Heinrich (William Henry) Goschen, who emigrated from Leipzig. His grandfather was the prominent...
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    wife, Maria Copley (d. 1899). Among his older siblings were brothers Sir William Vincent, 12th Baronet and Sir Frederick d'Abernon Vincent, 15th Baronet...
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    and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch. His dissertation was entitled Theory of Fibre...
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  • George Udny Yule (1813–1886) was a brother of the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule (1820–1889). His great uncle was the botanist John Yule. In 1899, Yule...
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    by church matters. He wrote a tract in 1841, which was praised by John Henry Newman. He took part in the discussion about "Essays and Reviews", defending...
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    Kennet 1938–1940 Arthur Lyon Bowley 1940–1941 Henry William Macrosty 1941 Hector Leak 1941–1943 William Beveridge 1943–1945 Ernest Charles Snow 1945–1947...
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    it was Dilke who was subjected to severe scrutiny in the witness box by Henry Matthews. Matthews' attack was devastating, and Dilke proved an unconvincing...
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