Brian Ripley was the Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford and a member of the Department of Statistics as well as a Professorial Fellow of St. Peter's College.
He retired in August 2014 on grounds of ill health.
There are home pages for
Venables & Ripley (1994,7,9,2002) Modern Applied Statistics with S
Ripley (1996) Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks
Venables & Ripley (2000) S Programming
and errata lists for my books.
Personal digital photography albums.