16 Facts About Stella Cunliffe

Stella Vivian Cunliffe was a British statistician.

Stella Cunliffe was the first female president of the Royal Statistical Society.

Stella Cunliffe became the first student to go on to study at university, at the London School of Economics, where she gained a BSc and graduated in 1938.

Stella Cunliffe began her career working from 1939 to 1944 in the Danish Bacon Company.

Stella Cunliffe was among the first civilians to go into Belsen Concentration Camp in 1945, where the volunteers oversaw the so-called "human laundry", the delousing of the inmates.

Stella Cunliffe redesigned the quality control work station so that it was equally easy to reject or accept a barrel, eliminating the prior bias and saving Guinness money in the process.

Stella Cunliffe was informed that due to a policy of only appointing men to the Board of Directors, she would not be made director despite her long career and experimental work.

Stella Cunliffe was the first woman to reach this grade in the British Government Statistical Service.

Stella Cunliffe acknowledged problems with migration figures, after an error was discovered where the number of passengers leaving the country had been overcounted.

Stella Cunliffe was a prison visitor, and promoted the use of statistics in criminal justice policy.

Stella Cunliffe presented the Home Secretary, Roy Jenkins, with international comparisons to show that capital punishment had no effect on murder rates.

Stella Cunliffe was a consultant at the University of Kent with the Applied Statistics Research Unit.

Stella Cunliffe served as the first female President of the Royal Statistical Society from 1975 to 1977.

Stella Cunliffe stated in her Presidential address she hoped she was elected "primarily as a statistician who happens to be a woman".

Stella Cunliffe was appointed MBE in 1993, for services to the Guides and the community in Surrey.

Stella Cunliffe served as a Mole Valley District Councillor from 1981 to 1999, chaired the local Community Health Council, and served as Chair of Governors for Parsons Mead School.