George Paine (registrar)
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George Paine (14 April 1918–2 March 1992) (known as Toby to friends) was a statistician and rose to become Director of Statistics and Intelligence, Inland Revenue, Registrar General of England and Wales, Director of Office of Population Censuses and Surveys from November 1972. He took early retirement (and a C.B. 15 June 1974) to farm in Wiltshire. He was born in Kent, schooled at home, then Ovingdean, Bradfield College and Peterhouse College Cambridge (senior wrangler). He navigated in De Havilland Mosquitos during World War II (and earned a DFC).
