Charlotte Kipling

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Charlotte Kipling (born Charlotte Harrison; 7 June 1919 – 9 August 1992) was a British statistician and ichthyologist. She studied economics at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1937 to 1940, a time when women could attend classes but were not awarded degrees; she is believed to have earned an MA there in 1948. She served as a cipher officer for the British Navy in Liverpool from 1941 to 1946. After the war she studied statistics at University College London (1946–1947) and then moved to Windermere, Cumbria, to work for the Freshwater Biological Association as a statistician in 1947.

At the Freshwater Biological Association Kipling collected long-term data on Windermere lake fish, including char, pike, and perch. She helped develop methods for gathering and analyzing data, working with Winifred E. Frost. Their work contributed to the Windermere Perch and Pike Project, which used the long-term data to study how fish populations change over time and respond to the environment and fishing.

She was a member of the Royal Statistical Society and the Institute of Biology. Charlotte Kipling died on 9 August 1992 in Millerground, Windermere, Cumbria, England.