Engels statisticus en econoom (1869), studeerde te Cambridge, was van 1907 tot 1914 hoogleraar in de wiskunde en de economie aan University College te Reading en van 1915 af hoogleraar in de statistiek aan de Universiteit van Londen (London School of Economics).
Bibl.: England’s Foreign Trade in the 19th Century (1893); Wages in the United Kingdom in the 19th Century (1900); Elements of Statistics (1901, 1946); The Measurement of Social Phenomena (1915); The Division of the Product of Industry (1919); The Change in the Distribution of the National Income, 1880-1913 (1920); Measurement of the precision attained in sampling (Bulletin de l’Institut International de Statistique, XXII: 1, 1926); Some Economic Consequences of the Great War (1930); Family Expenditure. A study of its variations (met R. G. D. Allen) (1935); Wages and Income in the United Kingdom since 1860 (1937); Studies in the National Income, 1924-1938 (1944).
