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See also:FARR, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1807-1883) , See also:English statistician, was See also:born at Kenley, in See also:Shropshire, on the 3oth of See also:November 1807. When nineteen he became the See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of a See also:doctor in See also:Shrewsbury, also acting as See also:dresser in the infirmary there. He then went to See also:Paris to study See also:medicine, but after two years returned to See also:London, where, in 1832, he qualified as L.S.A. Next See also:year he began to practise, but without very brilliant results, for five years later he definitely abandoned the exercise of his profession on accepting the See also:post of compiler of abstracts in the registrar-See also:general's See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office. The commissioners for the 1841 See also:census consulted him on several points, but did not in every See also:case follow his See also:advice. For the next two decennial censuses he acted as assistant-See also:commissioner; for that of 1871 he was a commissioner, and he wrote the greater See also:part of the reports of all. He had an ambition to become registrar-general; and when that post became vacant in 1879, he was so disappointed at the selection of See also:Sir See also:Brydges Henniker instead of himself, that he refused to stay any longer in the registrar's office. He died of See also:paralysis of the See also:brain a year or two later, on the 14th of See also:April 1883. A See also:great part of Farr's See also:literary See also:production is to be found in the papers which, from 1839 to 188o, he wrote for each See also:annual See also:report of the registrar-general on the cause of the year's deaths in See also:England. He was also the author of many papers on general See also:statistics and on See also:life-tables for See also:insurance, some read before the Royal Statistical Society, of which he was See also:president in 1871 and 1872, some contributed to the See also:Lancet and other See also:periodicals. A selection from his statistical writings was published in 1885 under the editorship of Mr See also:Noel See also:Humphreys.
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