Andrew Froude

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(9 August 1876 – 4 June 1945) was a Scottish civil servant who served as the

Registrar General for Scotland The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) ( gd, Oifis Choitcheann a' Chlàraidh na h-Alba) was a non-ministerial directorate of the Scottish Government that administered the registration of births, deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptions ...

.Scottish Government, General Registry Office for Scotland - History, Registrars General - Andrew Froude
Retrieved 8 November 2010

Life

Born the son of a blacksmith in 1876 at

Stonehouse, South Lanarkshire Stonehouse is a rural village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on Avon Water in an area of natural beauty and historical interest, near to the Clyde Valley. It is on the A71 trunk road between Edinburgh and Kilmarnock, near the towns of ...

, Andrew Froude won a place to attend the

Hamilton Academy Hamilton Academy was a school in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The school was described as "one of the finest schools in Scotland" in the Cambridge University Press County Biography of 1910, and was featured in a 1950 Scottish Seconda ...

Froude entered the

civil service The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

in London in 1897, subsequently transferring to the

General Register Office for Scotland The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) ( gd, Oifis Choitcheann a' Chlàraidh na h-Alba) was a non-ministerial directorate of the Scottish Government that administered the registration of births, deaths, marriages, divorces and adoptio ...

, at Edinburgh; in 1911 being appointed a superintendent of that year's

Census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

. In 1925 Froude was promoted to Secretary of the General Register Office, the administrative 'second' to the Registrar General, and in 1930 was appointed Registrar General for Scotland, a post he held from 3 September 1930 to 14 February 1937, in which year he retired, due to ill health, awarded the

Imperial Service Order The Imperial Service Order was established by King Edward VII in August 1902. It was awarded on retirement to the administration and clerical staff of the Civil Service throughout the British Empire for long and meritorious service. Normally a pe ...

. Froude was succeeded in his role by

James Gray Kyd James Gray Kyd CBE FFA FRSE (1882–1968) was a Scottish actuary who was Registrar General for Scotland from 1937 to 1949 and president of the Faculty of Actuaries from 1944 to 1946. Life He was born in Aberdeen on 9 August 1882, the son of Thom ...

. Andrew Froude died in Edinburgh in June 1945 at the age of 68.University of Glasgow – Registrars General of Scotland – biography, Andrew Froude
Retrieved 7 September 2011

References

External links

General Register Office for Scotland
{{DEFAULTSORT:Froude, Andrew 1876 births 1945 deaths People educated at Hamilton Academy Scottish civil servants Companions of the Imperial Service Order