Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson

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(24 November 1870 – 12 September 1932) was a Northern Irish statistician. He was born in

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, and educated at Strabane Academy,

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, and

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, before receiving his MB at the

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. 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

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. In 1909, he was appointed Superintendent of Statistics in the General Register Office. 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. He was awarded the

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in Gold by the

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in 1920, the

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by the

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in 1931, and the Bisset Hawkins Medal by the

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in 1932. He was appointed a

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevenson, Thomas Henry Craig 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