'''Sir William Schooling''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KBE|FRAS|FSS}} (16 December 1860 – 18 February 1936) was a British expert on insurance and statistics. He was named a CBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours and a KBE in 1920 for his work with the War Savings Committee.<ref>{{citation|bibcode=1937MNRAS..97R.280.|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=97|pages=280–281|department=Obituary Notices|title=Sir William Schooling|year=1937 |issue=4 |doi=10.1093/mnras/97.4.280a|doi-access=free}}.</ref>

Schooling was the editor of ''Bourne's Directory'', a listing of British insurance companies, and the author of several books on insurance<ref>''The Forester'', vol. 23 (1902), [https://books.google.com/books?id=QhhFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13 p.&nbsp;13].</ref> and on the history of the Hudson's Bay Company.<ref>{{citation|title=Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives|first=Deidre|last=Simmons|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press|year=2007|isbn=9780773560499|page=7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y7pT8yTwbnsC&pg=PA7}}.</ref>

With Mark Barr, he also did pioneering work on the mathematics of the golden ratio.<ref>{{citation | last = Cook | first = Theodore Andrea | authorlink = Theodore Andrea Cook | location = London | page = ix | publisher = Constable | title = The Curves of Life: Being an Account of Spiral Formations and Their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science and to Art: with the special reference to the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ulT8DQAAQBAJ&pg=PR9 | year = 1914| isbn = 9780486237015 }}.</ref>

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