William Schooling

Sir William Schooling KBE FRAS FSS (16 December 1860 – 18 February 1936) was a British expert on insurance and statistics. He was named a CBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours and a KBE in 1920 for his work with the War Savings Committee.[1]

Schooling was the editor of Bourne's Directory, a listing of British insurance companies, and the author of several books on insurance[2] and on the history of the Hudson's Bay Company.[3]

With Mark Barr, he also did pioneering work on the mathematics of the golden ratio.[4]

References

"Sir William Schooling", Obituary Notices, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 97: 280–281, Bibcode:1937MNRAS..97R.280..
The Forester, vol. 23 (1902), p. 13.
Simmons, Deidre (2007), Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, McGill-Queen's Press, p. 7, ISBN 9780773560499.
Cook, Theodore Andrea (1914), The Curves of Life: Being an Account of Spiral Formations and Their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science and to Art: with the special reference to the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, London: Constable, p. ix.

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[1] "Sir William Schooling", Obituary Notices, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 97: 280–281, Bibcode:1937MNRAS..97R.280..

[2] The Forester, vol. 23 (1902), p. 13.

[3] Simmons, Deidre (2007), Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, McGill-Queen's Press, p. 7, ISBN 9780773560499.

[4] Cook, Theodore Andrea (1914), The Curves of Life: Being an Account of Spiral Formations and Their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science and to Art: with the special reference to the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, London: Constable, p. ix.