Roger Snowden Schofield, FBA, FRHistS, FSS (26 August 1937 – 8 April 2019) was a British social scientist, social historian, demographer and academic.
Schofield was born on 26 August 1937 and educated at Leighton Park School and Clare College, Cambridge, where he completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies.
Having completed his PhD in 1963,[1] Schofield was appointed a research assistant to the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1966.
Schofield served as president of the British Society for Population Studies from 1985 to 1987[2] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1970, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1987[1] and a Fellow of the British Academy (the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences) in 1988.
[3] The University of Cambridge awarded him a higher doctorate in 2005.