Hugh Herbert Wolfenden

Hugh Herbert Wolfenden (13 January 1892, Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK – 26 May 26, 1968, Seattle) was a Canadian actuary and statistician, known primarily as a scholar and historian of the statistical research of Erastus L. De Forest.

Born in England, Wolfenden immigrated to Canada at the age of seventeen and worked as an actuary. For over twenty-five years, he was a consulting actuary in Toronto. In 1925 when four Protestant denominations merged into the United Church of Canada, he served as a consulting actuary in merging together the retirement plans of the clergy in the four different denominations. He retired in 1951.

Selected publications Articles

Books Population statistics and their compilation. Actuarial Society of America, 1925, 144 pages. Population statistics and their compilation. [Chicago] published by Univ. of Chicago Press for the Actuarial Soc. of America, 1954, 258 pages. Real meaning of social insurance; its present status and tendencies. Toronto, The Macmillan Company of Canada limited, 1932, 227 pages. Unemployment funds; a survey and proposal; a study of unemployment insurance and other types of funds for the financial assistance of the unemployed. Toronto, The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1934, 229 pages. Employment and social insurance act; Ottawa, J. O. Patenaude, 1935. Canadian medical association and the problems of medical economics; a series of articles by Hugh H. Wolfenden ... With a foreword by Dr. Wallace Wilson. Toronto, The Murray Printing Co., limited, 1941. Fundamental principles of mathematical statistics, New York, published by The Macmillan Company of Canada limited for the Actuarial Soc. of America, 1942.