Henry Daniels (statistician)

Henry Ellis Daniels, born in London on 2 October 1912 and died on 16 April 2000, was a British statistician and a Fellow of the Royal Society from 1980. Educated at George Heriot's School, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh, taking an M.A. in 1933 and a PhD in 1943, and studied further at Clare College, Cambridge. In 1957 he became the first Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Birmingham and stayed there until retiring in 1978. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1974 and 1975 and received its Guy Medal in Silver in 1947 and in Gold in 1984. The Parry-Daniels map is named after him and the English mathematician Bill Parry, and his 1954 paper on saddlepoint approximations in statistics is among his publications.