David Heron (statistician)

David Heron (28 April 1881 - 4 November 1969) was a Scottish statistician^[1] who was president of the Royal Statistical Society from 1947–1949.

He was born in Perth and studied Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the University of St Andrews.^[1]

He was Karl Pearson's research assistant.^[2] Later he became a fellow at the Eugenics Laboratory of University College London.^[3]

In 1906 he published "On the relation of fertility in man to social status".

In 1915 he became chief statistician for the London Guarantee & Accident Company, an insurance company. During the Second World War, he was Director of Statistics for the Ministry of Food.^[1]

He was married to Ethel Medwin from 1916 until her death in 1959.^[1]