David John Bartholomew FBA (6 August 1931 – 16 October 2017) was a British statistician who was president of the Royal Statistical Society between 1993 and 1995.

[2][3] He was educated at Bedford Modern School[4] and University College London, where he earned his BSc and PhD.

[2] Bartholomew was president of the Royal Statistical Society, 1993–95 (honorary secretary, 1976–82; treasurer, 1989–93).

Chance was God's idea and... he uses it to ensure the variety, resilience and freedom necessary to achieve his purposes.

[10] Bartholomew debated atheist physicist Victor Stenger on whether or not God is a failed hypothesis.