James Stark
1811–90
Scottish physician, statistician, and religious writer. MD, Edinburgh. Established a private practice in Edinburgh. First superintendent of statistics for the General Office, Edinburgh, 1855. Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Sources
CDEL
Scottish way of birth and death (database), University of Glasgow, Department of Economic and Social History, http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/scottishwayofbirthanddeath/leadingactors/superintendentsofstatistics/ (accessed May 2009).
Bibliography
CDEL: A critical dictionary of English literature, and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century … with forty indexes of subjects. By S. Austin Allibone. 3 vols. London: Trübner. Philadelphia: Childs & Peterson; J. B. Lippincott. 1859–71. A supplement to Allibone’s critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles. By John Foster Kirk. 2 vols. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott. 1891.
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