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EARÉE, Rev Robert Brisco 1846-1928. Educated Cockermouth Grammar School. Priest 1871. Succeeded WD Atlee and EL Pemberton as writer of ‘The Spud Papers’ (concerning forgeries) in The Philatelist. Philatelic editor of The Bazaar [1875]. Compiled the classic ‘Album Weeds or How to Detect Forged Stamps’ [1882] (3rd edition 1906). RDP 1921.

EARL, William Henry 1850-1926. Chartered Accountant. Specialist in Great Britain, Solomon Islands, France, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Papua, and USA. Donated series of Great Britain Queen Victoria ½d vermilion controls to Tapling Collection in British Museum. Contributed ‘History of the First Postage Stamp’ to English Journal of Philately [1878].

EASTON, John 1895-1967. Master printer. Had mint reference collection of British Commonwealth and Empire. Wrote ‘British Postage Stamp Design’ [1943], ‘The De La Rue History of British and Foreign Postage Stamps 1855-1901’ [1958], for which he received the Crawford Medal, and ‘Postage Stamps in the Making’ (a revision of Fred J Melville’s 1916 book of the same name) [1949]. Edited, with Arnold M Strange, ‘Perkins Bacon Records’ [1953], based on the work of PG de Worms. Edited with KM Beaumont, revised edition of ‘The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part III’ [1964]. RDP 1960.

EDINBURGH, Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of 1844-1900. Son of Queen Victoria. When it became known that he was keenly interested in philately, he was invited by the Philatelic Society, London, to open the Jubilee Philatelic Exhibition to be held in London in 1890. He attended the inaugural ceremony on 20th May in that year, and exhibited stamps from his own collection. In 1890 he also agreed to become the Society’s first Honorary President, and held that position until his death. Part of his collection was displayed in the class for rare stamps at the London Exhibition of 1897. Shortly before his death he sold the collection to the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) who passed it to Prince George of Wales, afterwards King George V. The Duke had already referred to the latter’s enthusiasm for the hobby on the occasion of the Exhibition in 1890.

EDMUNDS, Herbert Weston 1880-1954. Lloyd’s underwriter. Collected Tuscany, Hanover, and Oldenburg. Tapling Medal for Tuscany in 1937. Tilleard Medal for Oldenburg, 1944. Council Member RPSL 1937, President 1950-53.

EDWARDS, William Buckland MBE 1871-1962. Educated Mill Hill. Analytical chemist. Collected Jamaica, New Zealand, and South West Africa. Co-author, with LCC Nicholson, GW Collett, and Rev CS Morton of ‘Jamaica - Its Postal History, Postage Stamps, and Postmarks’ 1928. Edited The Philatelic Circular. President City of London P.S. 1906-09 and 1922-25.

ELLIOT, Wilfrid Thompson 1879-1957. Headmaster, Palace School, Bewdley. Collected Newfoundland and Papua. Unusual cancellations on stamps, errors, and varieties. Wrote ‘Philatelic Magazine Handbook No.3 (Papua)’, 1922. Hon Secretary Birmingham P.S.

ERSKINE, Gerald Brian 1895-1972. Publisher. Collected New Zealand and Dependencies, Greece, and Dominican Republic. Founder member New Zealand Society of Great Britain. President BPA. Published for PCGB ‘A Glossary of Philatelic Terms’ [1951], and ‘Background to Philately’ [1953]. Compiled ‘Approaches to Philately’ [1950]. Hon Editor Strand Stamp Journal from 1957, and for the publications of the International Stamp Exhibition, London 1960.

EVANS, Major Edward Benjamin RA 1846-1922. Educated Uppingham. Council Member RPSL and Member of Expert Committee. His first article ‘On Stamp Collecting’ was published in the North of England Stamp Review and Advertiser, in November 1864. In 1878 he sent a paper on Mauritius to the Congrès International des Timbrophiles, Paris, for which he was awarded highest prize by Société Française de Timbrologie. Compiled in 1882, for Pemberton, Wilson & Co ‘A Catalogue for Collectors’, and in 1891 a similar catalogue for CH Mekeel Publishing Co in USA. Also published a new edition (and two supplements) of EL Pemberton’s Philatelic Handbook, a treatise on the ‘Mulready and its Caricatures’ [1891], and ‘Stamps and Stamp Collecting’ for young collectors [1894]. Edited Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal 1890-1914, and the last five volumes of Gibbons Stamp Weekly. Notable contributor to Part II of ‘The Postage Stamps of the British Colonies, Possessions, and Protectorates in Africa’ [1900] particularly for Mauritius. Had been stationed in Mauritius and bought there 1d ‘Post Office’ on cover. His collection was dispersed in about 1885 when the cover and other items were acquired by TK Tapling. After 1885, specialised in Confederate States, the Mulready, and Indian Native States. Chairman of Permanent Executive Committee of PCGB, 1911-19. Served as judge at London Philatelic Exhibitions 1890, 1897, and 1906. Lindenberg Medal, 1908. RDP 1921.

EVANS, John Morton 1871-1956. Physician. Tilleard Medal 1953 for British Guiana 1860-75. Plated the Victoria half lengths, and typeset British Guiana of 1882. Also studied Transvaal. Council Member RPSL. President and founder member of Bristol and Clifton P.S. RDP 1935.

EVANS, Thomas David Fabian MRCS d.1938 age 87. His collection, which he never exhibited, was bequeathed to the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. It comprises some 44,000 stamps on 1981 pages. A short guide to it was compiled by FE Wilson. The Great Britain section is the most important and includes a mint copy of the Edward VII 10/- I.R. Official. The foreign section contains the Saxony 1850 3pf on complete wrapper, and the USA Columbian Exposition 4c deep blue, error of colour. This collection is considered by some to be the best general one in public ownership, other than the Tapling Collection.

EWEN, Herbert L’Estrange d.1912 age 36. Stamp dealer at Swanage in 1890s, and later at Norwood, London S.E. Published from 1893 ‘Priced Catalogue of the Stamps and Postmarks of the United Kingdom’. Author of ‘Railway Letter Stamps, and Railway, Newspaper, and Parcel Stamps’ [1906]. Published from 1895 the monthly English Specialists’ Journal. His collection of railway letter stamps of the period from 1891 to 1912, with sheets, proofs, and covers was given to the British Museum in 1949, and is now in the British Library.

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