British statistician, born in 1836, in Dublin, Ireland. He was educated in Rome, at the Irish College. He went to South America, and in 1861 founded the Daily Standard at Buenos Ayres, the first English daily on that continent. He was elected a member of the British Association and other honorary societies. He published The Progress of the World (1880); Dictionary of Statistics (1886–1892); and contributed to the Contemporary Review.
