R. Henry Rew

Sir Henry Rew

Sir Robert Henry Rew KCB (4 August 1858 – 7 April 1929) was a British agricultural statistician. He had a long career in public service and was a prominent member of the Royal Statistical Society serving as its President from 1920-22.

Life

He was the son of Robert Rew (1835–1917), a Congregational minister in Somerset and Buxton.[1][2] In 1890 he became Secretary of the Central Chamber of Agriculture.[3] He was secretary of the Royal Statistical Society from 1902 to 1920, and their Guy Medallist in 1905.[4]

At the beginning of World War I, in November 1914, Rew was put in charge of the government's Grain Supplies Committee, which he chaired to 1916.[4][5]

Rew was knighted in 1916. He stood twice for the Liberals in Henley (UK Parliament constituency) in 1922 and 1923 but lost on both occasions to Conservative Reginald Terrell.[6][4][7][8][9]

Works

  • Stack Ensilage (1888)[10]
  • An Agricultural Faggot: a Collection of Papers on Agricultural Subjects (1913)[11]
  • 1917, a chapter on wheat supply in a new edition of The Wheat Problem by William Crookes, publication subsidised by Lord Rhondda.[12] Wartime conditions allowed Rew to reinforce the original message of Crookes, on the connection of food security and chemistry.[13]

Rew was an Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Commission on Agricultural Depression from 1894. He produced reports on Norfolk and Dorset in 1895.[14][15]

References

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage. Kelly's Directories. 1920. p. 1054.
  2. ^ "The Surman Index: Rew, Robert". surman.english.qmul.ac.uk.
  3. ^ Court, William Henry Bassano (1965). British Economic History, 1700-1870. CUP Archive. p. 50.
  4. ^ a b c "Rew, Sir (R.) Henry". Who's Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 19 December 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ^ Simmonds, Alan G. V. (2012). Britain and World War One. Routledge. p. 195. ISBN 978-1-136-62997-6.
  6. ^ ‘Sir R. Henry Rew K.C.B.’, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, (1929), 92, (2), 297-299.
  7. ^ The Times, Tuesday, Apr 09, 1929; pg. 18; Issue 45172; col C Sir Henry Rew. Life-Long Service To Agriculture. An old colleague; Our Agricultural Correspondent. Category: Obituaries
  8. ^ The Times, Wednesday, Apr 10, 1929; pg. 18; Issue 45173; col D Sir Henry Rew. Category: Obituaries
  9. ^ The Times, Thursday, Apr 11, 1929; pg. 11; Issue 45174; col D Sir Henry Rew. Lord Bledisloe. Category: Obituaries
  10. ^ Rew, Robert Henry (1888). Stack Ensilage. London: Walter Scott.
  11. ^ Rew, Sir Robert Henry (1913). An Agricultural Faggot: a Collection of Papers on Agricultural Subjects.
  12. ^ Travis, Anthony S. (24 April 2018). Nitrogen Capture: The Growth of an International Industry (1900–1940). Springer. p. 146. ISBN 978-3-319-68963-0.
  13. ^ Sheail, John (2002). An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain. Macmillan International Higher Education. p. 260. ISBN 978-1-4039-4036-0.
  14. ^ Darby, H. C.; Darby, Henry Clifford (1986). New Historical Geography of England. CUP Archive. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-521-20116-2.
  15. ^ Mackie, Charles (1894). Norfolk Annals vol ll: Volume 2. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 558. ISBN 978-3-7524-1522-3.