It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Professor C David Kemp.
Professor C David Kemp, who was Secretary of the British Region of the IBS from1961 to 1970 and was Regional President for 1977-78, died on 26th October at the age of 98.
After National Service, David was offered the opportunity of studying Physics at Birmingham University but chose instead to study Mathematics with Economics at the University of Bristol, where he met his future wife, Freda, on the same course. (How lucky we are that he chose Mathematics and then Statistics.) After graduating in 1952, David and Freda went on to the Oxford Diploma Course in Statistics, newly established by David Finney.
David's first job was at the ARC Grassland Research Centre near Maidenhead, where in due course he became Head of the Biometrics Department. David and Freda moved to The Queen’s University in Belfast in 1963 and from there in 1970 to the new University of Bradford, where David was appointed as a Professor of Statistics and subsequently became Dean of the Faculty of Physical Sciences. They took early retirement in 1983 and moved to St Andrews, where they were appointed to Honorary positions in the Department of Statistics. They were for a long time Joint Book Reviews Editors for Biometrics. They were avid conference participants and speakers, and maintained contact with various Greek former PhD students, who returned there to become senior figures in academia and government.
Freda pre-deceased David in 2022 and he is survived by 4 children, 6 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
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