 He holds the Guy Medal in Silver from the Royal Statistical Society and the George Box Medal from the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.He was the elected President of the Royal Statistical Society in 1977, the first president to be elected by a contested vote.From 1834 to 1978, RSS Presidents had always been nominated and returned unopposed.