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GEORGE V 1865-1936. President RPSL 1896-1910 (when Duke of York). Patron 1910-36. Displayed Trinidad, Turks Islands, Bermuda, and British Guiana at the Society's second Exhibition 1893. Showed 800 imperforate stamps of Great Britain at an exhibition arranged by the Society in 1894, and hors concours, at London International Exhibition 1897, imprimaturs, rare essays, and proofs. In 1904 he read to the Society his 'Notes on the Postal Issues of the United Kingdom during the Present Reign'. He appointed JA Tilleard 'Philatelist to His Majesty' 1910, who was succeeded by ED Bacon in 1913. Entered on the RDP in 1921 as 'Premier Philatelist of the World, and First Signatory to the Roll', at which time his British Empire collection comprised 350 volumes.

TILLEARD, John Alexander d.1913 age 63. Educated Marlborough. Solicitor. Hon Secretary RPSL, 1894-1913. Expert on stamps of Prince Edward Island. Author of 'Notes on the De la Rue Series of the Adhesive Postage Stamps and Telegraph Stamps of India' [1896] (a supplement to the work on India and Ceylon published by RPSL in 1892). Drafted the necessary documents on the Society achieving Royal status in 1906. Appointed Philatelist to King George V, 1910. MVO 1911. Tilleard Medal instituted in his memory by RPSL and first awarded in 1920.