death_place death_date birth_place other_names nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
swindon , wiltshire , england 02 march 1992 east sutton , kent , england toby united kingdom 14 april 1918 registrar general george paine -lrb- civil servant -rrb-
 george paine statistician
george paine -lrb- civil servant -rrb-

george paine cb dfc -lrb- 14 april 1918 -- 2 march 1992 -rrb- -lrb- known as `` toby '' -rrb- was a statistician in the british civil service .
he rose to become director of statistics and intelligence at the inland revenue , registrar general of england and wales , and director of office of population censuses and surveys from november 1972 .
he was born in kent and was schooled at home , ovingdean hall school and bradfield college before attending peterhouse , cambridge .
he navigated in de havilland mosquitos during world war ii and earned a dfc .
he took early retirement in 1978 .
to farm in wiltshire .
