John Boreham

Sir Arthur John Boreham, KCB (30 July 1925 – 8 June 1994) was a British government statistician and the director of what was the Central Statistical Office of the United Kingdom from 1978 to 1985.

[1] The son of Frederick Boreham, Archdeacon of Cornwall from 1949 to 1965,[2] Sir John Boreham was educated at Marlborough College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he studied for a philosophy, politics and economics degree with statistics as an optional subject.

[3] After completing his degree, Sir John Boreham had a varied and successful career in the Government Statistical Service (GSS).

By streamlining and compressing the work of the office, Boreham implemented most of the recommendations of the Rayner Review by mid-1981 while still providing the same service to government.

Boreham was also elected to serve as the chairman of the Conference of European Statisticians, one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations, in 1984 and 1985.