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PHILIP HOLGATE (1934–1993)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

N. H. Bingham
N. H. Bingham
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Birkbeck College, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX Current address: Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH

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Philip Holgate was born in Chesterfield on 8 December 1934. His family moved from Derbyshire to Devon in 1945, and he was educated at Newton Abbot Grammar School from 1945 to 1952, and the University College of the South-West (now Exeter University, but which then awarded London degrees) from 1952 to 1955. He qualified as both a teacher (King's College, London, 1955–56) and a statistician (University College, London, 1956–57).

After teaching mathematics and physics at Burgess Hill School, in Hampstead and then in Borehamwood, Philip joined the Statistics Section at Rothamsted Experimental Station (1961–62). He then spent five years in the Biometrics Section of the Nature Conservancy. His first publications date from this period, and the interests he acquired then were to develop into what became his most enduring, and distinctive, scientific interests.

Philip joined the Department of Statistics, Birkbeck College, University of London, in 1967, and remained at Birkbeck for the rest of his career, until his death from a heart attack on 13 April 1993.

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OBITUARY
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Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , July 2000 , pp. 484 - 492
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© The London Mathematical Society 2000