Maurice Priestley

Maurice Bertram Priestley was a professor of statistics in the School of [Mathematics, University of Manchester], England. He gained his first degree at the University of Cambridge and went on to gain a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester.
He was known especially for his work on time [series analysis], especially spectral analysis and wavelet analysis. He was a longstanding editor of the Journal of [Time Series Analysis], a special edition of which was published in his honour in 1993.
Less well-known but equally important was his work with M.T. Chao on nonparametric function fitting.