Henry Daniels

Who was Henry Daniels?

Henry Ellis Daniels FRS was a British statistician. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society, and was awarded its Guy Medal in Gold in 1984, following a Silver medal in 1947. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1980. The Parry-Daniels map is named after him.

His family was Jewish, of Russian origin.

Henry graduated from the University of Edinburgh and went on to study at Clare College of the University of Cambridge. In 1957, he became the first Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Birmingham. He stayed at the university till his retirement in 1978. After retirement, he went to Cambridge and lived there until his death.