Sir Robert Henry Rew (4 August 1858 – 7 April 1929) was a British agricultural statistician. He had a long career in public service and was a prominent member of the

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serving as its President from 1920-22.

Life

He was the son of Robert Rew (1835–1917), a Congregational minister in Somerset and Buxton. In 1890 he became Secretary of the Central Chamber of Agriculture. He was secretary of the Royal Statistical Society from 1902 to 1920, and their

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list in 1905. At the beginning of

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, in November 1914, Rew was put in charge of the government's Grain Supplies Committee, which he chaired to 1916. Rew was knighted in 1916. He stood twice for the Liberals in Henley (UK Parliament constituency) in 1922 and 1923 but lost on both occasions to Conservative

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Works

*''Stack Ensilage'' (1888) *''An Agricultural Faggot: a Collection of Papers on Agricultural Subjects'' (1913) *1917, a chapter on wheat supply in a new edition of ''The Wheat Problem'' by

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. Wartime conditions allowed Rew to reinforce the original message of Crookes, on the connection of

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and chemistry. Rew was an Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression from 1894. He produced reports on

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and

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in 1895.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rew, Henry, Robert 1858 births 1929 deaths Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society British statisticians Liberal Party (UK) parliamentary candidates