Dorothy Enid Charles (29 December 1894 – 26 March 1972) was a British socialist, feminist and statistician who was a pioneer in the fields of demography and population statistics.
[1] She gained a Ph.D. in physiology from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
[2] Charles met the conscientious objector Lancelot Hogben while at Cambridge; they married in 1918.
[3] Out of a dozen or so socialist and feminist couples in Britain in the early 20th century, Charles was the only wife to keep her name.
In 1934, Charles projected drastic decline in population of the United Kingdom if fertility rates continued to fall.