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Posted by History Host (U14671356) on Friday, 28th October 2011
Morning morning,
Here's this morning's question:
Who was the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the (later Royal) Statistical Society and when? Bonus point if you can also name the second woman to be elected...
Katy
Florence Nightingale?
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 28th October 2011
We had this one before, Katy. The Lady of the Lamp was one of its founder members. Ol' Flo' Nightingale.
Haven't a clue as to the second woman. Gertrude Cox? Annie Dewey (the REAL inventor of the Dewey Decimal System)? Madame Curie?
I'd make an educated guess that the first woman fellow was Florence Nightingale who made a significant contribution to the development of statistics.
The second woman I have no idea. A pure guess would be that it was Queen Victoria and that was how it became the Royal Statistical Society.
You wait 50 minutes for an answer and then 3 come along at once.
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 28th October 2011
I think the consensus is that cloudyj sets the next one!
Twas Florence Nightingale. Queen Victoria was a big fan of her work which is probably why a 'Royal' prefix was added to the society.
Second lady was Baroness Anglea Bourdett-Couts, daughter f banker Thomas Coutts.
Over to you cloudyj...
FN invented the "pie chart", so I believe for men whose eyes used to cloud over when presented with a mass of numbers. Poor dears.
Sorry for the delay folks.
Which MP once booby-trapped his friend's house with gunpowder to prevent police arresting the friend? He was later to be besieged in his own house by police seeking his arrest for debt. A keen inventor, but not a profitable one he is better known in Chile than his native Scotland.
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 28th October 2011
The original Horatio Hornblower, Lord Dundonald, served a stint with various South American navies after being drummed out of his own for fraud conviction. But did he invent stuff too (besides false alibis)?
Yes - a rotary steam engine, the tunnelling shield (with Brunel pere), a galley, an improved stern light for convoys inter alia.
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