Cunliffe, Stella (1917–)

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Cunliffe, Stella (1917–)

English statistician. Name variations: S.V. Cunliffe. Born Stella Vivian Cunliffe, Jan 12, 1917, in Battersea, England; spent first few years in Singapore; returned with family to Holmwood, then Ashtead, England; dau. of a merchant; London School of Economics, BS in economics, 1938.

Worked at Danish Bacon Co. (1939–44), contributing to wartime food allocation; employed as statistician and later as statistical department head at brewery firm Arthur Guinness Son and Co. (1947–70); served as research unit head (1970–72) and director of statistics (1972–77) of Home Office, and was interested in statistical application to criminology and sociology; was the 1st woman president of Royal Statistical Society (RSS). Named Member of the Order of British Empire (MBE, 1993).

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