Udny Yule

Who was Udny Yule?

George Udny Yule FRS, usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician, born at Beech Hill, a house in Morham near Haddington, Scotland and died in Cambridge, England. His father, Sir George Udny Yule was a brother of the noted orientalist Sir Henry Yule. The Yule family had a reputation for scholarship and administration. Yule came from an established Scottish family composed of army officers, civil servants, scholars, and administrators.

In 1899, Yule married May Winifred. The marriage was annulled in 1912, there having been no children.