Alfred William Flux

Sir Alfred William Flux, (8 April 1867 – 16 July 1942) was a British economist and statistician.

Biography Flux was born in the Landport district of Portsmouth in 1867, the son of a cement maker. (sharing the honour in a tie with three others). While at Cambridge he became friends with Alfred Marshall, who interested him in economics. He was a foundation member of the Economic Society (1890). In 1893 he was appointed as Cobden Lecturer in Political Economy at Owens College, Manchester and from then until 1908 taught economics, at Manchester and then at McGill University, Montreal. In 1897, while in Manchester he married Harriet Emily Hansen, a Danish woman. The Royal Statistical Society awarded him the Guy Medal in Silver in 1921 and in Gold in 1930. He also served as President of the Society between 1928 and 1930.

Flux retired to Denmark in 1932 and was knighted in 1934. He died of pneumonia in 1942, aged 75.