Draft:Sir Stanley Carver

Sir Stanley Roy Carver OBE (7 February 1897 - 22 July 1967) was an Australian Soldier, Statistician and Economist, served as an 5th Commonweatlh statistician of Australia from 1957 to 1961, and as Acting Commonwealth statistician from 1940 to 1946 and from 1948 to 1951.

Early Life and Education
Stanley Roy Carver was born on February 7, 1897 at Warren, New South Wales to Arthur James Carver, a hairdresser and to Martha Ann Studman. Carver was educated in Newcastle High School and University of Sydney where he was a "evening student", after two years of studiying law in 1921, he changed to arts and graduated Bachelor of Arts with honors of English and Economics. On April 6, 1916, Carter joined the New South Wales Department of Public Instruction, as a clerk. After serving overseas and served briefly in France for Australian Imperial Force in 1918 to 1919, he was transfered from Education Department to the Australian Bureau of Statistics in 1920.