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DALSTON, Thomas Edwin b. London 1845. Author of ‘How to Detect Forged Stamps’, Gateshead, Bath & Leamington, 1865. Edited The Stamp Collector’s Examiner (Leamington) [1865]. Published ‘The North of England Stamp Review and Advertiser’ [1864] (five numbers). Described himself as “a solicitor’s clerk, afterwards a play actor”.

DALWICK (previously DALWIGK), Robert Elgar Richard 1889-1971. Journalist and dealer. Specialist in War and Air stamps, and colonial rarities. Founder and editor of Stamp Collecting, and published The Air Post Collector. Wrote handbooks on Egypt, Gambia, Togo, Virgin Islands, and Prince Edward Island. Also, with DB Armstrong, ‘Stamps for Beginners, a Popular Guide’ [1913], and with CHC Harmer, ‘Newfoundland Airmails 1919-39’ [1953]. Awarded medals in London and Paris.

DANIELS, James Herbert 1863-1936. Resided in Brighton. Wrote ‘A History of British Postmarks’ [1898]. An inveterate collector of matchbox labels. Secretary to the Postmark Club.

DANN, Henry Charles 1863-1948. Specialist in Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Wrote ‘The Romance of the Post Offices of Rhodesia and their Postmarks’ [1940], and ‘The Cancellations of the Rhodesias and Nyasaland’ [1950]. Edited Rhodesia in the Regent Stamp Catalogue, published by Robson Lowe. When Dann was in Bordeaux in 1884, a woman who ran a small tobacconist’s shop offered him what she described as two rare stamps. They were one each of the 1d and 2d ‘Post Office’ Mauritius, for which she wanted 300 francs (then equivalent to £12). Unfortunately he did not have the price available.

DANSON, Lt Col John Raymond MC 1893-1976. Average adjuster. Had collection of Sudan (19 vols), and Egypt (10 vols), and contributed to various journals about these countries. Succeeded Dr William Byam as leader of the Egypt Study Circle. He also had a colonial collection which was auctioned by Robson Lowe in 1971, and comprised The Nigerias, West and East Africa, British West Indies, South Africa, British Asia, and British Europe. His Egypt and Sudan were auctioned by Robson Lowe in 1977. Founder member of Society of Postal Historians.

DARLOW, John James 1873-1951. Originally with Bright & Son, and later a dealer on his own account in stamps of Palestine and Transjordan only. Hon Secretary first PCGB Manchester 1909. Council Member BPA. His monograph ‘Transjordan - A Straightforward Collection’ was reprinted from the London Philatelist in 1932. Also collected St Lucia. Assisted in compilation of Palestine and Transjordan entries in ‘The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps Volume III’. Author, with FA Bellamy, of a 'History of the PCGB 1909-12’.

DAVIE, John Hunter d.1888 age 45. Compiled with HJ Bellars ‘The Standard Guide to Postage Stamp Collecting’ London, 1864. According to Miss AL Fenton, he was an assistant in a music shop.

DAWSON, Lionel Edward 1900-1976. Studied India and Indian Feudatory States, for which he received international awards. Edited Philatelic Journal of India 1934-44. Author of ‘The One Anna and Two Annas Stamps of India 1854-55’ [1948] for which awarded Crawford Medal, 1950. Tilleard Medal, 1955, for Indian Feudatory States. Co-author with EA Smythies of ‘Jammu and Kashmir Simplified’ [1937]; with Smythies and HDS Haverbeck ‘Nepal’ [1952]. RDP 1961.

DE WORMS, Baron Anthony Denis Maurice George 1869-1938. The family owned coffee estates in Ceylon and he inherited a collection of Ceylon stamps from his father in 1912. Also collected British West Africa. Awarded medals for Ceylon in London 1897, Berlin 1930, and awarded Tilleard Medal in 1932. President Brighton and Sussex P.S. RDP 1921. His Ceylon collection was auctioned in a four-day sale by HR Harmer in 1938.

DE WORMS, Percy George (brother of Baron Anthony de Worms) 1873-1941. Barrister. Member of Council and Expert Committee RPSL. Hon Librarian there, 1935-41. Tapling Medal 1927 for ‘The Local Surcharges of Ceylon 1885’. Wrote history of the first fifty years of RPSL in 1919. Edited Ceylon in the Regent Stamp Catalogue, published by Robson Lowe. His work on the Perkins Bacon Records was published posthumously in 1953 (906 pp.) RDP 1928.

DIBDEN, William George Stitt 1916-1966. Had collection of Great Britain postal history from 1400 to date, in 200 albums. Awarded Melville Cup for best philatelic research article, 1955. Founder and Secretary Wembley P.S., Vice-President Postal History Society, 1964. His writings included ‘The Newspaper Branch Killers’ [1951]; ‘Wembley and the Posts’ [1954]; ‘London Date Stamp Code’ [1958]; ‘The Hey Dolphin Machines of Great Britain’ (with JWA Lowder) [1959]; ‘The Post Office 1635-1720’ [1960]; ‘Stamford Postal History’ (with L Tebbutt) [1961]; ‘A Priced Catalogue of British Exhibitions’ [1962]; ‘The Additional Halfpenny Tax 1813-39’ [1963]; ‘Postage Rates of H. M. Forces 1795-1899’ [1963]; ‘Squared Circle Postmarks’ [1964]; and ‘400 Years of Anglo-Dutch Mail’ [1965]. Author of some 300 articles on British postal history.

DUERST, George Bartholomew d.1923 age 61. Commercial traveller. Edited Philatelic Journal of Great Britain 1897-99. Co-author, with WD Beckton, of handbook on Greece [1897], and of articles in Philatelic Journal of Great Britain on Rumania. Also wrote on Egypt and Alsace Lorraine. Founded Hanover P.S. Vice-President Manchester P.S.

DUVEEN, Sir Geoffrey Edgar 1883-1975. Son of Henry Joseph Duveen, whose famous general collection he inherited (see CJ Phillips). He retained the Gibraltar section, which was the basis of his ‘Postage Stamps of Gibraltar’ published in 1932. Charles Nissen was responsible for the Addendum, dealing with Gibraltar postmarks on British Stamps.

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