The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as The Philatelic Society, London. The society runs a postal museum, the Museum of Philatelic History, at its Devonshire Place headquarters in London.
L.N. and M. Williams were a philatelic writing partnership made up of brothers Leon Norman Williams and Maurice Williams (1905–1976).
Sir Edward Denny Bacon, KCVO was a British philatelist who helped with the enlargement and mounting of collections possessed by rich collectors of his time and became the curator of the Royal Philatelic Collection between 1913 and 1938.
The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists (RDP) is a philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921. The Roll consists of three pieces of parchment to which the signatories add their names.
Francis Edgar Kiddle was a British philatelist who achieved an international reputation in the field of philatelic literature and cinderella philately.
Gary Sidney Ryan (1916–2008) was an eminent philatelist who specialised in the stamps and postal history of Hungary and later in revenue stamps.
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Tristan da Cunha.
Marcus Francis Javier Samuel was a distinguished British philatelist who was an expert on the specimen stamps and revenue stamps of Britain and the British Commonwealth. He was a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London.
Alan D. Anyon is a British philatelist and expert in the revenue stamps of Colombia. In 2009, with Dieter Bortfeldt, he published the first dedicated catalogue of Colombian revenue stamps.
Robert P. Odenweller is an American philatelist who is a member of the National Postal Museum's Council of Philatelists and a signatory to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. He is a member of The Collectors Club of New York, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London and the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand. From 1996 to 2000 he was President of the Grand Prix Club.
Hugo Griebert (1867-1924) was a stamp dealer and philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps of Spain and who was entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.
Lieut. Colonel George S. F. Napier was a British Army officer of the 52nd Oxfordshire Light Infantry.
Alphonse Marie Tracey Woodward was a philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps of Japan. In 1929, he was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work The postage stamps of Japan and dependencies. He was also awarded the Lindenberg Medal.
Albert Edward Basden, MBE 1918, was a philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps of South Africa and Transvaal in particular. In 1940, with J.H. Curle, he was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work Transvaal Postage Stamps.
Johannes Schmidt-Andersen was a Danish philatelist who in 1952 was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work The postage stamps of Denmark 1851-1951. Gibbons Stamp Monthly called him "the Father of Danish philately". He signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1950.
Dr. William Robert Denison Wiggins FFARCS MRCS was a British medical practitioner and philatelist who in 1963 was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part II.
Arthur Ronald Butler was a British philatelist who was President of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1978 to 1980. He was a specialist in the stamps of Australia and in 1978 was awarded the Crawford Medal for his work The departmental stamps of South Australia.
Harold Wolf Fisher was a philatelist who was a specialist in the line-engraved stamps of Great Britain. In 1980 he was awarded the Crawford Medal for the first four volumes of his work The Plating of the Penny and in 1981 he signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. Fisher was also President of the Great Britain Philatelic Society.
