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British agricultural statistician

Sir Robert Henry RewKCB (4 August 1858 – 7 April 1929) was a British agricultural statistician. He had a long career in public service and was a prominent member of theRoyal Statistical Society serving as its President from 1920-22.

Life

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He was the son of Robert Rew (1835–1917), a Congregational minister in Somerset and Buxton.^[1]^[2] In 1890 he became Secretary of the Central Chamber of Agriculture.^[3] He was secretary of the Royal Statistical Society from 1902 to 1920, and theirGuy Medallist in 1905.^[4]

At the beginning ofWorld War I, in November 1914, Rew was put in charge of the government's Grain Supplies Committee, which he chaired to 1916.^[4]^[5]

Rew was knighted in 1916. He stood twice for the Liberals inHenley (UK Parliament constituency) in 1922 and 1923 but lost on both occasions to ConservativeReginald Terrell.^[6]^[4]^[7]^[8]^[9]

Works

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Stack Ensilage (1888)^[10]
An Agricultural Faggot: a Collection of Papers on Agricultural Subjects (1913)^[11]
1917, a chapter on wheat supply in a new edition ofThe Wheat Problem byWilliam Crookes, publication subsidised byLord Rhondda.^[12] Wartime conditions allowed Rew to reinforce the original message of Crookes, on the connection offood security and chemistry.^[13]

Rew was an Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression from 1894. He produced reports onNorfolk andDorset in 1895.^[14]^[15]

References

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^Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1920. p. 1054.
^"The Surman Index: Rew, Robert".surman.english.qmul.ac.uk.
^Court, William Henry Bassano (1965).British Economic History, 1700-1870. CUP Archive. p. 50.
^^a ^b ^c"Rew, Sir (R.) Henry".Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved19 December 2020.(Subscription orUK public library membership required.)
^Simmonds, Alan G. V. (2012).Britain and World War One. Routledge. p. 195.ISBN 978-1-136-62997-6.
^‘Sir R. Henry Rew K.C.B.’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, (1929), 92, (2), 297-299.
^The Times, Tuesday, Apr 09, 1929; pg. 18; Issue 45172; col C Sir Henry Rew. Life-Long Service To Agriculture. An old colleague; Our Agricultural Correspondent. Category: Obituaries
^The Times, Wednesday, Apr 10, 1929; pg. 18; Issue 45173; col D Sir Henry Rew. Category: Obituaries
^The Times, Thursday, Apr 11, 1929; pg. 11; Issue 45174; col D Sir Henry Rew. Lord Bledisloe. Category: Obituaries
^Rew, Robert Henry (1888).Stack Ensilage. London: Walter Scott.
^Rew, Sir Robert Henry (1913).An Agricultural Faggot: a Collection of Papers on Agricultural Subjects.
^Travis, Anthony S. (24 April 2018).Nitrogen Capture: The Growth of an International Industry (1900–1940). Springer. p. 146.ISBN 978-3-319-68963-0.
^Sheail, John (2002).An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 260.ISBN 978-1-4039-4036-0.
^Darby, H. C.; Darby, Henry Clifford (1986).New Historical Geography of England. CUP Archive. p. 316.ISBN 978-0-521-20116-2.
^Mackie, Charles (1894).Norfolk Annals vol ll: Volume 2. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 558.ISBN 978-3-7524-1522-3.

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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
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