David george kendall biography of alberta

Biography

David Kendall attended Ripon Grammar School and then entered Queen's College, Oxford. He was awarded his M.A. in 1943 but he had already been involved in war work.

During the years of World War II Kendall worked as an Experimental Officer with the Ministry of Supply from 1940 until the end of the war in 1945. Other mathematicians such as Rogers also held similar posts with the Ministry of Supply.

In 1946 Kendall was elected a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in mathematics. He spent the academic year 1952-53 in the United States as a visiting lecturer at Princeton University. Then in 1962 Kendall was appointed as Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge.

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At the same time he was elected a fellow of Churchill College Cambridge. Kendall held this chair of mathematical statistics until he retired in 1985 and which time he became professor emeritus. He also became an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen Co