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NANKIVELL, Edward James 1848-1909. City editor of Pall Mall Gazette. Council Member RPSL. Instigated publication of the London Philatelist, and was the first editor, 1892-93. Edited Philatelic Record and Stamp News, and Gibbons Stamp Weekly. Founded The Postage Stamp, 1907. Transvaal specialist, and produced Transvaal Collectors’ Quarterly. Philatelic editor of The Captain and The Connoisseur. Wrote handbooks on Sudan, 1904 (reprinted from The Captain), Cape of Good Hope [1909]. His Transvaal collection realised £3000 in 1903.

NAPIER, Lt Cdr Francis John Hamilton Scott d.1929 age 79. Wrote, with ED Bacon, ‘St Vincent’ [1895], ‘Barbados’ [1896], ‘Grenada’ [1902]; with G Smith, ‘South Australia’ [1894]; and with G Harrison, ‘Portuguese India’ [1893]. Author of ‘The Stamps of Griqualand West’ [1906]. Judge at International Exhibitions 1897 and 1906. RDP 1921.

NAPIER, Lt Col George Samuel Frederick d.1942 age 79. Council Member RPSL. Medals internationally for Brazil, Greece, and Persia. Served on juries at exhibitions in Brussels and Paris. Wrote ‘The Stamps of the First Issue of Brazil’, for which he received the Crawford Medal, 1924. Compiled an index to the Ferrary Auction Catalogues, 1925.

NEWPORT, Oliver William 1922-1998. Philatelic journalist and authority on Channel Islands stamps and postal history. Discovered Great Britain 1841 2d with Alderney Maltese Cross, and Crown Registered marks of Jersey and Guernsey. Subsidiary interests were Japanese Occupation issues, and Hong Kong postmarks. Assistant editor of Stamp Collecting, and philatelic correspondent of Daily Telegraph. His writings included ‘The Channel Islands, Their Postal History, Stamps and Cancellations’ [1950], ‘The Island of Herm and Its Local Stamps’ [1953], ‘Channel Islands Revenue and Insurance Stamps’ [1954], ‘Channel Islands - France Mail Services 1683-1939’ [1956], ‘Stamps and Postal History of the Channel Islands’ [1972], ‘The Post in Liverpool’ 1988. Joint author with Oswald John Simpson, of ‘Datestamps of Jersey and Guernsey 1830-1956’ [1956], ‘The Post in Alderney, Sark, and Chausey Islands’ [1956], ‘The Numeral Obliterations and Instructions of the Channel Islands’ [1957]. Founder, with OJ Simpson, of Channel Islands S.S.

NICHOLSON, Leverton Coryton Courtenay 1887-1952. Bank official. Wrote ‘Jamaica Pre-Stamp Covers 1760-1860’, and ‘Jamaica Temporary Rubber Datestamps 1881-1938’. Co-author with Rev CS Morton, GW Collett, and WB Edwards of ‘Jamaica - Its Postal History, Postage Stamps, and Postmarks’ [1928]. Won Congress Cup at PCGB Paignton 1936 for his paper ‘How to run a Philatelic Society successfully’. President Croydon P.S. 1930. Sold his Jamaica collection in 1940.

NISSEN, Charles d.1944 age 64. Dealer in London. Discovered Great Britain 1/- Stock Exchange Forgery, 1899. Conducted Stamp Collectors’ Annual with PC Bishop, 1904-11. Established in 1908 the British Philatelist, which dealt only with Great Britain. Appointed a Royal Warrant holder by King George V. With Thomas Allen, purchased the Perkins Bacon stock and records, 1936. Wrote, with IJ Bernstein, handbook on the Official Stamps of Great Britain [1906], and with B McGowan ‘The Plating of the Penny Black Postage Stamp of Great Britain, 1840’, for which they were awarded the Crawford Medal, 1922. RDP 1923.

NORFOR, William d.1927 age 63. Born in Madras. Chartered Accountant (Scotland). Specialist in Canada and Gold Coast. Chairman PCGB Edinburgh 1913. President Scottish P.S.

NORTH, John Collier 1854-1952. Had general collection in 120 volumes with specialisation in India, Cyprus, Malta, Morocco, Gibraltar, Baden, Bavaria, Syria, Palestine, Falkland Islands, Scandinavia, Austria-Hungary, Brazil, and Egypt. Awarded medals in London, Manchester, Paris, and Berlin. Custodian of Holliday (q.v.) collection in Tolson Museum, Huddersfield. President Huddersfield P.S., Hon Life member Leeds P.S. and Manchester P.S.

NUNN, Charlie Hearn 1863-1911. Dealer 1885, and afterwards auctioneer (Wells & Nunn) in Bury St Edmunds. Published Nunn’s Directory of Stamp Dealers, 1880-98, and Foreign Stamp Collectors’ Journal, 1878-1901 (known as The Stamp Collectors’ Journal from 1882). Also published ‘Philatelical Annuals’ in 1881 and 1884, and small booklets by various authors, mostly reprinted from The Stamp Collectors’ Journal.

OGILVIE, Walter Tulliedeph. Employed in British Museum. Author of ‘The Young Collector’s Penny Handbook of Postage Stamps’ [1883], and ‘Handbook for the Collector of Postage Stamps’ [1885], (Young Collector Series, 3rd edition 1905).

OLDFIELD, Herbert Rooke d.1940 age 81. Solicitor. Hon Secretary RPSL 1917-26. Leading member of PCGB, and its first Hon Life Member, 1937. Won Congress Cup at PCGB London 1923 for his paper ‘Unfashionable Countries’. Chairman BPA. President International Philatelic Union. Hon Secretary, 1895, of Society for the Suppression of Speculative Issues. Collected India, Bolivia, Bosnia, Chinese locals and Formosa, Colombia, Persia, and Swiss Cantonals. Tapling Medal, 1923 for display of India. Wrote monographs on Bolivia [1898], Bosnia [1912], and ‘The Stamps of the Treaty Ports of China and of Formosa’ [1927]. Life Fellow RPSL 1922. RDP 1922.

OLIVER, Frank Higby 1867-1947. Manager of a printing works before becoming a partner in Bright & Son, Bournemouth. Sole owner of that firm from 1924. As collector concentrated on Greece, Heligoland, Luxembourg, and Prince Edward Island. Edited Philatelic Adviser. Chairman of Stamp Trade Protection Association. Published Bright’s Philatelic Library of Handbooks. Compiler and editor of Bright’s ‘ABC’ World Catalogue, 1896-1932.

OLIVER, Sidney Arthur Roberts d.1968 age 70. Student of Great Britain and postal history. Publisher of the annual Philatelic Societies Handbook. Co-author with FH Vallancey [1923] of ‘The Postage Stamps of Great Britain 1840-1922’. Hon Secretary PCGB Torquay 1930. President Torquay P.S.

OPPEN, Edward A In 1863 issued a Catalogue of British and Foreign Postage Stamps, appended to an album in which the stamps could be placed. There were two editions in that year, and three in 1864-65, edited by Henry Whymper. Dr CW Viner then became the compiler, and was responsible for twenty-four editions, up to 1891.

OSBORNE, Harry MD 1875-1959. Specialist in Great Britain 1840-80 and Western Australia. Author of ‘The Ray Flaws of Plates 1 and 2 of the Penny Black’ [1935], ‘Great Britain Twopence Plate Nine - A Study of the Plate and its Repairs’ (Crawford Medal 1939), ‘British Line Engraved Stamps, Twopence Blue - Studies of Plates 1 to 15’ [1948], ‘British Line Engraved Stamps - Repaired Impressions’ [1949]. Awarded Grand Gold Medal for his Great Britain at London International Exhibition 1950. Also researched Ceylon and New South Wales. RDP 1954.

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