Harry Campion
Sir Harry Campion, KCB, CBE (20 May 1905 – 24 May 1996) was a British statistician and the first director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom.He played a leading role in the development of official statistics, nationally and internationally, after the Second World War.While at Manchester he published research on the distribution of national capital using estate duty data[1] and a book on public and private property.The CSO became established as a permanent feature of government focusing on the development of national income accounts.The Campion Fellowship is awarded every two years with the maximum sum of money available on any occasion being £10,000, to Fellows of the Society to promote a specific piece of work or project that would make a significant contribution to the development, use or exposition of statistics on the economic or social well being of the population.