John Kingman#

Sir John Kingman, F.R.S.
John Frank Charles Kingman, born 28 August 1939; married (1964), Valerie Cromwell, M.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S. (Director of the History of Parliament, 1991-2001, High Sheriff of Bristol, 2004-05); one son John (now Chief Executive, United Kingdom Financial Investments), one daughter (Charlotte, now a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist).

Education

• Christ's College, Finchley
• Scholar of Pembroke College, Cambridge; Wrangler in Part II (1959) and Distinction in Part III (1960) of the Mathematical Tripos
• Smith's Prize, 1962
• B.A. (1960), M.A. (1964), Sc.D. (1969)

Career

• Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1961-65, 2001-06.
• Assistant Lecturer (1962-64) and Lecturer (1964-65) in Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
• Reader in (1965-66) and Professor of (1966-69) Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sussex.
• Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, 1969-85.
• Chairman of the Science and Engineering Research Council, 1981-85.
• Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol, 1985-2001.
• Chairman of the Statistics Commission, 2000-03.
• Director of the Isaac Newton Institute for, and N.M. Rothschild & Sons Professor of, Mathematical *Sciences, University of Cambridge, 2001-06, now Emeritus.

Other positions

Visiting appointments at the University of Western Australia (1963, 1974), Stanford University (1968), the Australian National University (1978), the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley (1987), and the University of Bristol (since 2006).

• Member, Brighton County Borough Council, 1968-71
• Member, Advisory Board for the Research Councils and Assessor to the University Grants Committee, 1981-85
• Vice-Chairman (1983-86) and Vice-President (1986-89, 2002-5)
• Parliamentary and Scientific Committee
• Council Member, British Technology Group, 1984-92
• Board Member, British Council, 1986-91
• Governor, Ditchley Foundation, since 1987
• Member, British-North American Committee, since 1986
• President, Coimbra Group of European Universities, 2001

• Chairman, Institute of Statisticians, 1973-76 (Vice-President and Honorary Fellow, 1976-92
• Chartered Statistician, 1993)
• President, Royal Statistical Society, 1987-89 (Honorary Fellow, 1993)
• President, London Mathematical Society, 1990-92
• President, European Mathematical Society, 2003-06
• Member, Abel Prize Committee, 2007-09
• Chairman, Committee of Inquiry into the Teaching of English Language, 1987-88

• Director of:

IBM (UK) Holdings Ltd, 1985-95
Beecham Group plc, 1986-89
SmithKline Beecham plc, 1989-90
Bristol United Press plc (formerly Bristol Evening Post plc), 1989-2001
Deputy Chairman, 1998-2001
British Technology Group plc, 1992

• Member of Western Advisory Board, National Westminster Bank, 1987-92
• Member of Scientific Advisory Board, SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, 1992-97
• Member, South Western Regional Health Authority, 1990-94
• Member, Avon Health Authority, 1996-99
• Special Trustee, United Bristol Hospitals, 1986-2000

Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, since 1987

Honours

• Fellow of the Royal Society, 1971
• Member of the Academia Europaea, 1995
• Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences, 2007
• Knight Bachelor, 1985

• Honorary Fellow:

St Anne's College, Oxford, 1985
Pembroke College, Cambridge, 1988
University of Bristol, 2001

• Honorary degrees:

D.Sc. (Sussex) 1983
D.Sc. (Southampton) 1985
LL.D. (Bristol) 1989
D.Sc. (West of England) 1993
Doctor of the St Petersburg University of Humanities and Social Sciences, 1994
D.Phil. (Cheltenham & Gloucester) 1998
LL.D. (Queen’s University, Ontario) 1999
D.Sc. (Brunel) 2004

• Officier des Palmes Académiques, 1990.
  
• Honorary Senator, University of Hannover, 1991.
  
• Guy Medal in Silver (Royal Statistical Society) 1981.
  
• Royal Medal (Royal Society) 1983.
  
• Companion of Operational Research, 1986.
  
• Conseiller d’Honneur, Grand Conseil de Bordeaux, 1997.