Outside Interests
He had wide interests outside his work. They included chess (he published a statistical investigation of chess openings), music (studying and publishing on the pathography of Schumann and other composers), poetry (he published a book of his own, often rather dark, poems, The Ebbless Sea), eugenics (he was fellow and vice-president (1963-6) of the Eugenics Society), euthanasia (he joined the Euthanasia Society after his retirement), painting (an exhibition of his paintings was held in 1977), and the statistical study of literature (he was awarded a Ph.D. from London University at the age of 77 for a statistical word study of the play Edward III, which provided evidence that the play was by Shakespeare).
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