1833 - The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA) creates a statistics section, following a presentation by Adolphe Quetelet to fellows, including Thomas Malthus and Charles Babbage.
1834 - The statistical
section of BA establishes a Statistical Society. First officer
and Council elected, with Marquis of Lansdowne as President.
1838 - Publication of a
Journal.
1840 - Prince Albert becomes the
Society's Royal Patron.
1858 - Florence
Nightingale is the first elected female.
1887 - The Society is
granted a Royal Charter and becomes the Royal Statistical
Society (RSS).
1928 - Formation of the
first study group (an early version of the Society's
sections).
1930s - Leading fellows
include economist, J.M. Keynes and Sir William Beveridge, the
intellectual godfather of the British welfare state.
1934 - The publication of a
supplemental journal on statistical methodology, which becomes a
series in its own right in 1948.
1947 - The Society's
attempt to gain a supplemental charter to allow professional
examinations is blocked by the Royal Economic Society.
1948 - Society's first
conference is held at St Hugh's College, Oxford. The Institute of
Statisticians (IOS), an organisation dedicated to the interests of
professional statisticians is formed.
1993 - RSS and IOS merge,
retaining the title of the Royal Statistical Society.
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