John Erritt

Michael John Mackey Erritt, CB (15 February 1931, Belfast - 3 October 2002, Lindfield, Sussex) was the Deputy Director of the British Government Statistical Service.

Education

  • St Andrew's College, Dublin
  • Prince of Wales School, Nairobi
  • Queen's University, Belfast (BSc (Econ)).

Career

  • Research Officer, Science and Industry Committee, 1953
  • Assistant Statistician, Central Statistical Office, 1955
  • Statistician: Board of Trade, 1960; H.M. Treasury, 1964; Board of Trade, 1967
  • Chief Statistician: Inland Revenue, 1968; Central Statistical Office, 1973; Departments of Industry, Trade and Prices and Consumer Protection, 1975; Ministry of Defence, 1979
  • Assistant Under-Secretary of State and Director of Statistics, Ministry of Defence, 1981
  • Assistant Director, Central Statistical Office, 1985-1991; Deputy Director, Government Statistical Service, 1989-1991.

He moved from the MoD back to the CSO because Michael Heseltine ordered a reduction in the number of statisticians in the MoD and his post was downgraded.

gollark: I have, just not significantly at all.
gollark: ```==2274==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: attempting free on address which was not malloc()-ed: 0x0015a170 in thread T0 #0 0xca7b7 (/home/pi/mputest/a.out+0xca7b7) #1 0x12b2eb (/home/pi/mputest/a.out+0x12b2eb) #2 0x12b47f (/home/pi/mputest/a.out+0x12b47f) #3 0x12ff03 (/home/pi/mputest/a.out+0x12ff03) #4 0x13de8b (/home/pi/mputest/a.out+0x13de8b) #5 0x76bfd677 (/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libc.so.6+0x16677)AddressSanitizer can not describe address in more detail (wild memory access suspected).SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: bad-free (/home/pi/mputest/a.out+0xca7b7) ```Fun, a different error!
gollark: Honestly, this is just 3 apioforms where 3 = 1297.
gollark: I see.
gollark: `bcm2835_peri_write (paddr=0xb, value=104) at bcm2835.c:239`Well, this is more helpful, hmm.

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