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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1993-10-20 human Gavan McCarthy updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P000055b.htm person Hayter Henry Heylyn CMG AACR2 28 October 1821 23 March 1895 Place of Birth Eden vale, Wiltshire, England Place of Death Armadale, Victoria, Australia Statistician Henry Hayter was a world renowned statistician, whose system of statistical recording was adopted by all Australian colonies in 1875. He also advised the New Zealand government and the British House of Commons on how to improve their statistical recording and was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG). The French and Italian governments also bestowed Hayter with their top awards for his contribution to the field of statistics.

After migrating to Australia in 1852, Hayter was given temporary employment by the Registrar-General's Office. Because of Hayter's impressive work and 1859 report, he was soon promoted to assistant registrar-general. In 1874 the statistics branch of the Registrar-General's Office became a separate department with Hayter in charge. He remained with the statistics department until 1895 and carried out the 1861, 1871 and 1891 Victorian censuses. Hayter fought hard for uniformity in census taking throughout the Australasia colonies, Great Britain and Ireland and in 1881 the Colonial Office finally agreed and asked all colonies to take their census on the same day.

One of Hayter's most noted implementations as head of the statistics department was to replace the method of reporting based on the Statistics of Victoria with the methods described in his Statistical Registrar (1859). Over the next ten years, the register was expanded and developed and eventually evolved into the inaugural Victorian Year Book (1873). This book was updated and published annually and became a popular resource book which even received praise from England and America.

Henry Heylyn Hayter was bestowed many honours for his contribution to statistics and census taking. He was also appointed an honorary member of the Royal Statistical Society of London, the Statistical and Social Enquiry Society of Ireland, the Statistical Association of Tokyo and the Royal Societies of South Australia and Tasmania.

1852 1852 Life event - Migrated to Australia (Melbourne) 1857? 1858? Career position - Statistics collector in Victoria (Ripon, Dundas, Folletee, Normanby, and Wimmera regions) 1859 1859 Career position - Statistical Register written and implemented 1859 1874 Career position - Assistant Registrar-General in Victoria 1870 1872 Career position - Secretary to the royal commission into the working of the Victorian Public Service 1874 1895 Career position - Head and Government Statist, Statistics Department of the Registrar-General's Office 1881 1881 Career position - Member of the Social Science Congress in Melbourne 1882 1882 Award - Officer of the Order of Public Instruction, France c. 1882 c. 1882 Award - Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) 1884 1884 Award - Chevalier of the Order of the Italian Crown 1887 1891 Career position - Director of the Metropolitan Bank and the Metropolitan Building Society 1888 Career event - Original [founding] member, Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1888 1888 Career position - President, Section G (Social Science and Agriculture), Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science Colony of Victoria (1851 - 1901)

Statistician 1857 - 1895.

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Original [founding] member 1888 - ; President, Section G (Social Science and Agriculture) 1888

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 'Hayter, Henry Heylyn', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hayter, Henry Heylyn Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Hayter, Henry Heylyn (1821-1895), statistician Neeson, I. J. Hayter, Henry Heylyn (1821-1895), statistician Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1972 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J Douglas Pike 366-367 Journal Article: Address by [...] President of Section F - Economic and Social Science, and Statistics [On official statistics] Hayter, H. H. Address by [...] President of Section F - Economic and Social Science, and Statistics [On official statistics] Sydney, NSW Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1889 Report of the first meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 1 417-433 Journal Article: Official statistics in the late colonial period leading on to the work of the first Commonwealth Statistician, G. H. Knibbs Heyde, C. C. Official statistics in the late colonial period leading on to the work of the first Commonwealth Statistician, G. H. Knibbs 1988 Australian Journal of Statistics 30 B 23-43 Book: Dictionary of Australian biography Serle, Percival Dictionary of Australian biography Sydney Angus & Robertson 1949 Resource: Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001