British Academy publishes biographical memoirs of two deceased Fellows

The British Academy has published online open-access memoirs of two deceased Fellows: James Durbin and Anthony Hobson (right).

James Durbin (1923-2012) was an economist at LSE whose research in Statistics and Econometrics covered a wide range of topics, including time series analysis, sample survey methodology, goodness-of-fit tests, probability theory, simultaneous equations models and the philosophy of statistics.

Anthony Hobson (1921-2014) was a book historian in charge of the book department at Sotheby’s, and an authority on bindings of the 15^th to 19^th centuries.

Since its earliest years, the British Academy has published extended obituaries (memoirs) of deceased Fellows of the British Academy. Collectively the biographical memoirs of the British Academy make up a chapter in the intellectual history of Britain, and are used as a source by biographers and historians.

For more information and to download the memoirs, see the British Academy Biographical Memoirs page.