Roger Eddison

However his father, Edwin Eddison, a civil engineer died when he was six months old, and his mother, Hilda Muriel Leadham returned to England with her young family by way of Canada.

Although her family came from Leeds, she settled in Haywards Heath and Roger attended Charterhouse School followed by Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Following the Second World War, Eddison first went to the Rothamsted Experimental Station, where he worked as a statistician with Frank Yates.

[3] One of their first tasks was to respond to concerns raised by the Ministry of Transport as regards delays to ships experienced at British ports.

By now the BISRA team now had about sixteen staff, and focused on various studies of smaller steel companies that did not have their own department.