Our society: its aims and achievements (1847-1919)

Abstract

On the 22nd November, 1847, a number of gentlemen met in the Royal Irish Academy, Grafton Street,when it was unanimously resolved, on the motion of Captain T. A. Larcom, R.E.: "That a Society be established to be called The Statistical Society of Dublin." The office bearers then elected were:—President: The Most Rev. Richard Whately, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin; Vice-Presidents: Captain T. A. Larcom, E.E., and Mountiford Longfield, Q.C., LL.D.; Hon. Secretaries: James A. Lawson, LLB., and W. Neilson Hancock, LL.B.; and Hon. Treasurer: Stewart Blacker. The object of the Society was "to promote the study of Statistics and Economical Knowledge" by means of written communications to be read at meetings of the Society, and it was expressly stipulated that "no communication shall be received by the Society involving topics likely to produce discussions connected with religious differences or party politics".