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See also:GIFFEN, See also:SIR See also:ROBERT (1837—1910) , See also:British statistician and economist, was See also:born at See also:Strathaven, See also:Lanarkshire. He entered a See also:solicitor'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 in See also:Glasgow, and while in that See also:city attended courses at the university. He drifted into journalism, and after working for the Stifling See also:Journal he went to See also:London in 1862 and joined the See also:staff of the Globe. He also assisted Mr See also:John (afterwards See also:Lord) See also:Morley, when the latter edited the Fortnightly See also:Review. In 1868 he became See also:Walter See also:Bagehot's assistant-editor on the Economist; and his services were also secured in 1873 as city-editor of the Daily See also:News, and later of The Times. His high reputation as a See also:financial journalist and statistician, gained in these years; led to his See also:appointment in 1876 as See also:head of the statistical See also:department in the See also:Board of See also:Trade, and subsequently he became assistant secretary (1882) and finally controller-See also:general (1892), retiring in 1897. In connexion with his position as See also:chief statistical adviser to the See also:government, he was constantly employed in See also:drawing up reports, giving See also:evidence before commissions of inquiry, and acting as a government auditor, besides See also:publishing a number of important essays on financial subjects. His See also:principal publications were Essays on See also:Finance (1879 and 1884), The Progress of the Working Classes (1884), The Growth of See also:Capital (189o), The See also:Case against See also:Bimetallism (1892), and Economic Inquiries and Studies (1904). He was See also:president of the Statistical Society (1882—1884); and after being made a C.B. in 1891 was created K.C.B. in 1895. In 1892 he was elected a See also:Fellow of the Royal Society. Sir Robert Giffen continued in later years to take a leading See also:part in all public controversies connected with finance and See also:taxation, and his high authority and See also:practical experience were universally recognized. He died somewhat suddenly in See also:Scotland on the 12th of See also:April 1910.
End of Article: GIFFEN, SIR ROBERT (1837—1910)
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