Lancaster, Henry Oliver (1913 - 2001)

Summary

Henry Lancaster was Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor of Medical Statistics at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney 1946-1959 and Professor of Mathematical Statistics 1959-1978.

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Chronology

1937

Education - Bachelor of Medicine (MB) and Bachelor of Surgery (BS), University of Sydney

c. 1937 - c. 1939

Career position - Resident Medical Officer and Resident Pathologist, Sydney Hospital

c. 1939

Career position - Junior Fellow in Medicine of the Postgraduate Medical Foundation at Prince Henry Hospital

c. 1940

Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Sydney

1940 - 1946

Career position - Pathologist with the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps

1946 - 1959

Career position - Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor of Medical Statistics, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, University of Sydney

1948 - 1949

Career position - Rockefeller Fellow in Medicine, London School of Hygiene

1952 - 1953

Career position - President, Statistical Society of New South Wales

1953

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Sydney

1957 - 1963

Career position - Member of Council, Australian Mathematical Society

1959 - 1971

Career position - Editor of the Australian Journal of Statistics

1959 - 1978

Career position - Professor of Mathematical Statistics, University of Sydney

1961

Award - Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science

1961 - 2001

Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of Science (FAA)

1965 - 1966

Career position - President, Statistical Society of Australia

1966

Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Sydney

1966 - 1967

Career position - President, Australian Mathematical Society

1971

Education - Doctor of Science (DSc), University of Sydney

1972 - 2001

Award - Honorary Life Member, Statistical Society of Australia

1980

Award - Pitman Medal, Statistical Society of Australia

1981 - 2001

Award - Honorary Life Member, Australian Mathematical Society

1992

Award - Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to mathematical sciences and to education

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Henry Oliver Lancaster - Records, 1934 - 1947, MS 103; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

National Library of Australia Oral History Collection

• Henry Oliver Lancaster - Records, 1933 - 1974, DeB 760; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Smith, Ailie, Adolph Basser Library Manuscript Collection, eScholarship Research Centre, 2012, http://www.eoas.info/basser_browse.html. Details

Book Sections

• Lancaster, H. O., 'Baldwin, Alec Hutcheson (1891-1971), professor of tropical medicine' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 13: 1940 - 1980 A-De, John Ritchie, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1993), pp. 97-98. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130116b.htm. Details

Journal Articles

• Armitage, Peter, 'Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster, 1913 - 2001', Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D (The statistician), 51 (4) (2002), 566-8, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3650357. Details
• Backhouse, T. C.; Lancaster, H. O., 'Obituary: James Joscelyn Lawrence', Australian Journal of Science, 23 (3) (1960), 76-77. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'An Early Statistician: John Graunt (1620-1674)', Medical Journal of Australia, 2 (19) (1962), 734-738. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'Obituary: Norman McAlister Gregg', Australian Journal of Science, 29 (4) (1966), 104. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'Charles Henry Wickens, 1872-1939 [includes list of publications]', Australian Journal of Statistics, 16 (2) (1974), 71-82. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'Morris Birbeck Pell, 1827 - 1879', Australian Mathematical Society gazette, 4 (1977), 89-94. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'Tables of Mortality Rates for Australia, 1881-1980', Reference Australia, 1 (November) (1987), 3-26. Details
• Lancaster, H. O., 'Statistical Society of New South Wales', Australian Journal of Statistics, 30 (B) (1988), 99-109. Details
• Lancaster, H. O.; and Gordon, D., 'Health and Medicine in Australia, 1788-1988', Reference Australia, 2 (May) (1988), 21-49. Details
• Seneta, E., 'Henry Oliver Lancaster (1 February 1913 - 2 December 2001)', Newsletter, International Statistical Institute, 26 (1) (2002), 7. Details
• Seneta, E.; and Eagleson, G.K., 'Henry Oliver Lancaster 1913-2001', Historical Records of Australian Science, 15 (2) (2004). https://doi.org/10.1071/HR04005. Details
• Seneta, Eugene, 'Henry Oliver Lancaster AO, FAA, DSc, MD, PhD, MB BS, BA', Medical Journal of Australia, 176 (9) (2002), 439. https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04488.x. Details
• Seneta, Eugene, 'In Memoriam: Emeritus Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster, AO FAA 1 February 1913 - 2 December 2001', Australian and New Zealand journal of statistics, 44 (4) (2002), 385-400. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28059118. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/111011412. Details
• 'Lancaster, H O (1913-2001)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-496688. Details
• Seneta, Eugene, Emeritus Professor Henry Oliver Lancaster, AO FAA 1 February 1913 - 2 December 2001, University of Sydney, Sydney, [2002]. https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/About/lancaster.htm. Details

Resource Sections

• Mellor, Lise, 'Lancaster, Henry Oliver', in University of Sydney School of Medicine Online Museum, Faculty of Medicine Online Museum and Archive, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2008. https://sydney.edu.au/medicine/museum/mwmuseum/index.php/Lancaster,_Henry_Oliver. Details

See also

• Who's who in Australia 1995 (Melbourne: Information Australia Group, 1995), 1622 pp. Details
• Thomas Ranken Lyle Medal, Australian Academy of Science, Canberra, 2023. https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/thomas-ranken-lyle-medal. Details