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William Gosset
Times obituary
The Interpretation of Statistics
"E. S. B." writes:
My friend of 30 years, William Sealy Gosset, who died suddenly from a heart attack on Saturday, at the age of 61, was known to statisticians and economists all over the world by his pseudonym "Student," under which he was a frequent contributor to many journals. He was one of a new school of mathematicians who were founders of theories now generally accepted for the interpretation of industrial and other statistics.
The eldest son of Colonel Frederic Gosset, R.E., of Watlington, Oxon, he was born on June 13, 1876. He was a scholar of Winchester, where he was in the shooting VIII, and went up to Oxford as a scholar of New College, receiving first classes in mathematical moderations in 1897 and in natural science (chemistry) in 1899. He was one of the early pupils of the late Professor Karl Pearson at the Galton Eugenics Laboratory, University College, London. Over 30 years ago, Gosset became chief statistician to Arthur Guinness, Son and Company, in Dublin, and was quite recently appointed head of their scientific staff. He was much beloved by all those with whom he worked and by a select circle of professional and personal friends who revered him as one of the most modest, gentle, and brave of men, unconventional, yet abundantly tolerant in all his thoughts and ways. He also loved sailing and fishing and invented an angler's self-controlled craft described in the Field of March 28, 1936. His widow is a sister of Miss Phillpotts, for many years Principal of Girton College, Cambridge.
The Interpretation of Statistics
"E. S. B." writes:
My friend of 30 years, William Sealy Gosset, who died suddenly from a heart attack on Saturday, at the age of 61, was known to statisticians and economists all over the world by his pseudonym "Student," under which he was a frequent contributor to many journals. He was one of a new school of mathematicians who were founders of theories now generally accepted for the interpretation of industrial and other statistics.
The eldest son of Colonel Frederic Gosset, R.E., of Watlington, Oxon, he was born on June 13, 1876. He was a scholar of Winchester, where he was in the shooting VIII, and went up to Oxford as a scholar of New College, receiving first classes in mathematical moderations in 1897 and in natural science (chemistry) in 1899. He was one of the early pupils of the late Professor Karl Pearson at the Galton Eugenics Laboratory, University College, London. Over 30 years ago, Gosset became chief statistician to Arthur Guinness, Son and Company, in Dublin, and was quite recently appointed head of their scientific staff. He was much beloved by all those with whom he worked and by a select circle of professional and personal friends who revered him as one of the most modest, gentle, and brave of men, unconventional, yet abundantly tolerant in all his thoughts and ways. He also loved sailing and fishing and invented an angler's self-controlled craft described in the Field of March 28, 1936. His widow is a sister of Miss Phillpotts, for many years Principal of Girton College, Cambridge.
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