BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
Henry Oliver Lancaster 1913-2001
This memoir was originally published in Historical Records of Australian Science, vol.15, no.2, 2004.
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E. Seneta, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
Eugene Seneta, FAA, succeeded H.O. Lancaster as Professor and Head of Mathematical Statistics at the
University of Sydney in 1979. Denoted by 'ES' in the sequel.
G.K. Eagleson, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales
Geoff. Eagleson was one of Lancaster's first PhD students in Mathematical Statistics (PhD, University of
Sydney, 1967).
