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Bernard Benjamin

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British health statistician, actuary and demographer

Bernard Benjamin
Born	8 March 1910 London
Died	15 May 2002(2002-05-15) (aged 92) London
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Sir John Cass College
Known for	Actuarial science,demography
Awards	Gold Medal of theInstitute of Actuaries (1975) Guy Medal(Gold, 1986)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	London County Council General Register Office UK Ministry of Health Greater London Council City University

Bernard Benjamin (8 March 1910 – 15 May 2002) was a notedBritish healthstatistician,actuary anddemographer. He was author or co-author of at least six books and over 100 papers in learned journals.

He was born inLondon and studiedphysics part-time atSir John Cass College while working as an actuary for theLondon County Council pension fund, later moving to thepublic health section. Following wartime service as a statistician in theRAF he returned to the same civilian job and studied part-time for aPhD on the analysis oftuberculosis mortality. He was appointed Chief Statistician at theGeneral Register Office in 1952, Director of Statistics at theMinistry of Health in 1963, then the first director of the Intelligence Unit of theGreater London Council in 1966. In 1973, he became professor ofactuarial science atCity University, the first chair in actuarial science at an English university, where he designed the first undergraduate degree program in the subject in the country.

He was secretary-general of theInternational Union for the Scientific Study of Population from 1962 to 1963. He was president of theInstitute of Actuaries from 1966 to 1968 and of theRoyal Statistical Society from 1970 to 1972,^[1] and was awarded the highest honours of both bodies – the Gold Medal (1975) and theGuy Medal in Gold (1986), respectively.

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Bayley, G. V.; Benjamin, Bernard (1976)."Presentation of an Institute Gold Medal to Professor Bernard Benjamin"(PDF).Journal of the Institute of Actuaries.103:1–3.doi:10.1017/S0020268100017741. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 28 May 2008. Retrieved16 May 2008.
Haberman, Steven (2005). "Benjamin, Bernard".Encyclopedia of Biostatistics. Wiley Interscience.doi:10.1002/0470011815.b2a17005.ISBN 047084907X.

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^"Royal Statistical Society Presidents". Royal Statistical Society. Archived fromthe original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved6 August 2010.

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20th century	1902–1904Patrick George Craigie 1904–1905Sir Francis Powell, Bt 1905–1906The Earl of Onslow 1906–1907Richard Martin 1907–1909Sir Charles Dilke, Bt 1909–1910Jervoise Athelstane Baines 1910–1912Lord George Hamilton 1912–1914Francis Ysidro Edgeworth 1914–1915The Lord Welby 1915–1916Lord George Hamilton 1916–1918Bernard Mallet,Registrar General 1918–1920Herbert Samuel 1920–1922R. Henry Rew 1922–1924The Lord Emmott 1924–1926Udny Yule 1926–1928The Viscount D'Abernon 1928–1930A. William Flux 1930–1932Sir Josiah Stamp 1932–1934The Lord Meston 1934–1936Major Greenwood 1936–1938The Lord Kennet 1938–1940Arthur Lyon Bowley 1940–1941Henry William Macrosty 1941Hector Leak 1941–1943William Beveridge 1943–1945Ernest Charles Snow 1945–1947The Lord Woolton 1947–1949David Heron 1949–1950Sir Geoffrey Heyworth 1950–1952Austin Bradford Hill 1952–1954Ronald Fisher 1954–1955The Lord Piercy 1955–1957Egon Pearson 1957–1959Harry Campion 1959–1960Hugh Beaver 1960–1962Maurice Kendall 1962–1964Joseph Oscar Irwin 1964–1965Sir Paul Chambers 1965–1966L. H. C. Tippett 1966–1967M. S. Bartlett 1967–1968Frank Yates 1968–1969Arthur Cockfield 1969–1970R. G. D. Allen 1970–1971Bernard Benjamin 1971–1972George Alfred Barnard 1972–1973Harold Wilson 1973–1974D. J. Finney 1974–1975Henry Daniels 1975–1977Stella Cunliffe 1977–1978Henry Wynn 1978–1980Sir Claus Moser 1980–1982David Cox 1982–1984Peter Armitage 1984–1985Walter Bodmer 1985–1986John Nelder 1986–1987James Durbin 1987–1989John Kingman 1989–1991Peter G. Moore 1991–1993T. M. F. Smith 1993–1995D. J. Bartholomew 1995–1997Adrian Smith 1997–1999Robert Nicholas Curnow 1999–2001Denise Lievesley
21st century	2001–2003Peter Green 2003–2005Andy Grieve 2005–2007Tim Holt 2008–2009David Hand 2010–2010Bernard Silverman (resigned Feb 2010; replacedpro tem by David Hand) 2011–2012Valerie Isham 2013–2014John Pullinger 2014–2016Peter Diggle 2017–2018David Spiegelhalter 2019–Deborah Ashby
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