Thomas Henry Craig Stevenson CBE (1870 – 12 September 1932) was a Northern Irish statistician. He was born in

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, County Tyrone, and educated at University College, London, before receiving his MB at the University of London. He set up in practice and read for an MD in State Medicine and was later offered a post in the Brighton Public Health Department. After posts in public health elsewhere, he became the School Medical Officer of

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. In 1909, he was appointed Superintendent of Statistics in the General Register Office. He was awarded the

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in Gold by the Royal Statistical Society in 1920 and the

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of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was appointed a CBE in 1919.‘STEVENSON, Thomas Henry Craig’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 200
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stevenson, Thomas Henry Craig 1870 births 1932 deaths People from Strabane Alumni of University College London Alumni of the University of London Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Irish statisticians Presidents of the Royal Statistical Society Civil servants in the General Register Office