E. C. Rhodes

Edmund Cecil Rhodes (1892-1964) was born in Yorkshire and went to Bradford Grammar School and Trinity College, Cambridge where he graduated as Wrangler (B-star) in 1914. In 1924 he became Reader at the London School of Economics where he remained until he retired in 1958. He wrote for Biometrika and the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, and Edgeworth called him a "pathbreaker" (see obituary by Grebenik.

Rhodes also worked with Carr-Saunders on his study of juvenile delinquency, and he contributed to population studies and the statistical study of examinations (see his book with Sir Philip Hartog entitled An Examination of Examinations]].

• Grebenik, E. (1965) Edmund Cecil Rhodes, 1892-1964 (obituary). Journal of the Royal Statistical Society A128(4):615-616.