T. H. C. Stevenson
Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson CBE (24 November 1870[1] – 12 September 1932) was a Northern Irish statistician.
He was born in Strabane, County Tyrone, and educated at Strabane Academy, Trinity College Dublin, and University College, London, before receiving his MB at the University of London. He set up in practice and read for an MD in State Medicine and was later offered a post in the Brighton Public Health Department. After posts in public health elsewhere, he became the School Medical Officer of Somerset County Council. In 1909, he was appointed Superintendent of Statistics in the General Register Office.[2]
Responsible for the 1911 census in the UK which was published in 1913, he originated the idea of social class classification, divided into three basic classes (the upper, middle and working classes) commonly known as the Registrar General's Social Classes.[3] [4]
He was awarded the Guy Medal in Gold by the Royal Statistical Society in 1920 and the Edward Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was appointed a CBE in 1919.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ ""T. H. C. Stevenson's Birth Certificate"" (PDF). Irish Gaeneology. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
- ^ G., M. (1933). "Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. 96 (1): 151–156. ISSN 0952-8385. JSTOR 2341892.
- ^ "Social Research Update 9: Official Social Classifications in the UK".
- ^ Jones, Ian G.; Cameron, Donald (1984). "Social class analysis—an embarrassment to epidemiology". Community Medicine. 6 (1): 37–46. JSTOR 45155930. PMID 6368114.
- ^ ‘STEVENSON, Thomas Henry Craig’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 23 July 2013
- 1870 births
- 1932 deaths
- People from Strabane
- Alumni of University College London
- Alumni of the University of London
- Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
- Irish statisticians
- Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society
- Civil servants in the General Register Office
- Recipients of the Jenner Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine