George Paine (registrar)

George Paine (14 April 1918–2 march 1992) (known as "Toby") was a statistician and rose to become Director of Statistics and Intelligence, Inland Revenue, Registrar General of England and Wales, Director of Office of Population Censuses and Surveys from November 1972.

He was born in Kent, schooled at home, then Ovingdean, Bradfield College and Peterhouse, Cambridge. He navigated in De Havilland Mosquitos during World War II (and earned a DFC). He took early retirement (and a CB 15 June 1974) to farm in Wiltshire.

References

* Philip Redfern, "Obituary: George ('Toby') Paine CB, DFC, 1918-92", "Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society)" 156 (1993), pp.121-122