A CONVERSATION WITH KENDALL,DAVID

David George Kendall was born on 15 January 1918 in Ripen, Yorkshire, and was educated at Ripen Grammar School. He studied Mathematics at Qu een's College, Oxford (1936-1939), where he held a Hastings Scholarshi p. He was taught by Haslam-Jones and much influenced by Milne and Titc hmarsh. His early interests were in astronomy. He spent the war years at the Projectile Development Establishment working on rockets under C ook, Rosenhead and Knight, together with Anscombe, Bartlett, Moran, Ra nkin, Slater and others. In 1946 he reentered academic life as a Fello w of Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a colleague of Henry White head. He became the first Professor of Mathematical Statistics in the University of Cambridge (1962) and continues to work there in retireme nt. He has been a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge since 1962. H e was one of those who joined with Jerzy Neyman in the campaign for th e establishment of the Bernoulli Society, and he became its first Pres ident (1975). His honors and awards include the Guy Medal in Silver of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) (1955), Fellow of the Royal Socie ty (FRS) (1964, Council 1967-1969, 1982-1983), President of the London Mathematical Society (1972-1974), Weldon Memorial Prize (1974), Sylve ster Medal of the Royal Society (1976), Honorary D.de l'U. (Paris Rene Descartes, 1976), D.Sc. (Oxford, 1977), Senior Whitehead Prize of the London Mathematical Society (1980), RSS Guy Medal in Gold (1981), Pre sident of the Mathematics and Physics Section of the British Associati on (1982), Milne Lecturer (1983), Honorary Fellow of Queen's College O xford (1985), Hotelling Lecturer (1985), Honorary D.Sc. (Bath, 1986), Sc.D. (Cambridge, 1988), De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical So ciety (1989), Member Academia Europaea (1991), Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy (1992). He was joint editor of Mathematics in, the Ar chaeological and Historical Sciences (1971), Stochastic Analysis (1973 ), Stochastic Geometry (1974) and Analytic and Geometric Stochastics ( 1986). He has collaborated extensively with G. E. H. Reuter on stochas tic analysis and with Huiling Le on stochastic geometry. David Kendall married Diana Fletcher in 1952; they have six children. The eldest, W ilfrid S. Kendall, has collaborated with his father and is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Warwick.