Flavia Jolliffe was born Flavia Rosamund Savigear on 22 July 1942, and died on 6 August 2020. She had a long career in academe and gave extensive service to the statistics community in general and to the Royal Statistical Society in particular.

Her early career was at Imperial College but she soon moved to the Department of Economics and Social Statistics at Southampton, and afterwards to the Department of Economics at what was then known as Queen Mary College in London. These affiliations indicate one of her main interests, in social statistics: an interest that was reflected in her later work for the Society.

In 1973, she was appointed to the then Department of Statistics and Operational Research at Brunel University. She settled quickly into the life of a busy statistics department which later (1980) merged with the mathematicians to become a large Department of Mathematics and Statistics. She taught at all levels, undergraduate and postgraduate, but seemed particularly effective in small‐group tutorials and especially in one‐to‐one contact with project and dissertation students.

By 1990, she felt it was time to move on. After a short period in a research unit at Surrey, in 1991 she joined the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing at what was then the Thames Polytechnic and soon became the University of Greenwich. Here she again settled quickly into general academic duties. She often said it was a rare and stimulating privilege to have an office in a building that was part of a World Heritage Site. She retired in 2002 but remained professionally active for several years, including taking an appointment as an honorary lecturer at the University of Kent.

Flavia continued her activities in social statistics, while developing her work in statistical education, the field in which she will be best remembered and where she has left a considerable legacy. She published, as joint author or joint editor, two books in this area (and several other books in social statistics). She was a member of the IASE and a Founding Co‐Editor of its new electronic Statistical Education Research Journal, which first appeared in 2002. As well as this interest in research, she was always keen to address practitioners, which she did by writing in journals such as Teaching Statistics and MSOR Connections. She participated in many conferences, including most of the International Conferences on Teaching Statistics, often with invited papers.

Flavia became a Fellow of the Society early in her career (in 1964). She became a Chartered Statistician in 1993 and served on Council from 1997 to 2001. She was energetically involved in the Society's education activities, being a member of the then Education Committee and Chair of the Education Section. It was typical of her to promote these activities to the membership in general, initiating the Education Column in RSS News in 1993 and running it for 5 years. She was a member at various times of several other committees, including the Social Statistics Section. She was an examiner for the Society's professional examinations, setting papers at Ordinary and Higher Certificate levels for several years. She was also active in school examinations, being the Chief Examiner for a rather interesting AS Level syllabus in statistics for most of the 1990s.

Flavia would never have claimed to be a leading‐edge researcher or a famously innovative teacher. But she undertook her work competently and enthusiastically, and will have helped many people to gain a greater understanding of statistics and of statistical education. The Society and the statistics community in general have lost a loyal servant, and the present writer has lost a good personal friend.

Flavia Jolliffe于1942年7月22日出生于Flavia Rosamund Savigear，于2020年8月6日去世。她在学术界拥有很长的职业生涯，并为整个统计界，尤其是为皇家统计协会提供了广泛的服务。

她的早期职业是在帝国理工学院，但不久后就搬到了南安普敦的经济和社会统计学系，之后又搬到了当时被称为伦敦皇后玛丽学院的经济学系。这些从属关系表明了她在社会统计方面的主要兴趣之一：这种兴趣反映在她后来为协会所做的工作中。

1973年，她被任命为当时的布鲁内尔大学统计与运筹学系系主任。她很快适应了繁忙的统计部门的生活，该部门后来（1980年）与数学家合并，成为一个大型的数学和统计系。她曾在大学和研究生院的各个级别任教，但似乎在小组辅导中特别有效，尤其是在与项目和学位论文学生进行一对一接触时。

到1990年，她觉得是时候继续前进了。在萨里郡的一个研究部门短暂工作后，1991年，她加入了当时的泰晤士理工学院数学，统计和计算机学院，并很快成为格林威治大学。在这里，她再次迅速适应了一般的学术职责。她经常说，在属于世界遗产的建筑物中设有办公室是一种难得的刺激性特权。她于2002年退休，但仍从事专业工作多年，包括被任命为肯特大学名誉讲师。

弗拉维亚（Flavia）继续从事社会统计工作，同时发展了统计教育工作，这一领域将为她留下最深刻的印象，并为她留下了可观的遗产。她以联合作者或联合编辑的身份出版了该领域的两本书（以及社会统计领域的其他几本书）。她是IASE的成员，也是2002年首次出版的新电子《统计教育研究》杂志的创办人之一。除了对研究的兴趣外，她一直热衷于向从业者致辞，她通过在期刊，例如教学统计和MSOR连接。她参加了许多会议，包括大多数国际教学统计会议，并经常邀请论文参加。

Flavia在职业生涯的早期（1964年）成为该学会的会员。她于1993年成为一名特许统计学家，并于1997年至2001年在议会任职。她积极地参加了协会的教育活动，成为当时的教育委员会成员和教育科主席。她通常将这些活动推广给全体会员，在RSS新闻中开设“教育专栏”在1993年运营了5年。她曾在多个其他委员会（包括社会统计科）担任过成员。她曾担任协会专业考试的审查员，几年来一直在普通证书和高级证书级别上定稿。她还活跃于学校考试中，在1990年代的大部分时间里担任过一个相当有趣的AS Level统计课程的首席考试官。

Flavia永远不会声称自己是领先的研究人员或著名的创新老师。但是她能干而热心地开展工作，并且将帮助许多人对统计和统计教育有更多的了解。学会和统计界普遍失去了一位忠实的仆人，而现任作家失去了一个好朋友。