Hector Leak
CBE
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(23 July 1887 – 5 April 1976) was a British statistician. He was appointed a CBE in 1942.
[‘LEAK, Hector’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200]
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/ref> He was also the president of the Royal Statistical Society
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during a short period in 1941. Awarded the silver Guy Medal
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in 1940.
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1887 births
1976 deaths
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society