William Guy

William Augustus Guy ( born June 13, 1810; † September 10, 1885 ) was a British physician and statistician.

He was educated at Christ's Hospital and at Guy's Hospital. He studied at Heidelberg University and the University of Paris until he got at Cambridge University in 1837 Bachelor in Medicine. In 1842 he was appointed Professor of Forensic Science at King's College London and the Assistant Physician at King's College Hospital. From 1859 to 1869 he worked as medical director of the Millbank Prison.

From 1852 to 1856 he was the author of the Journal of the Statistical Society of London, and from 1873 to 1875 he was president of the society. This, now renamed the Royal Statistical Society, dedicated to him the Guy Medal.

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• Forensic pathologist
• Physician (19th century)
• Statisticians ( 19th century)
• University teachers (King 's College London)
• Briton
• Born in 1810
• Died in 1885
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