HALL, Thomas William 1861-1937. Solicitor. President RPSL 1923-29. Chairman of Expert Committee. Edited London Philatelist 1917-37. Awarded medals for Peru and Colombia. Tilleard Medal for early issues of Victoria, 1923. Tapling Medal for the 1858 issue of Peru, 1932. Plated the Express stamps of Samoa. Worked on reconstruction of Natal 'Postage' overprints. Sold his collection of Fiji so as to acquire Zanzibar, on which his study of type varieties of overprints was published in Part III of the RPSL volume on British Africa, 1906. Bought Leslie Hausburg's collection on latter's death in 1917. Co-author, with LW Fulcher, of 'The Postage Stamps of Venezuela' [1924]. Lindenberg Medal, 1934. RDP 1921. Master of the Innholders Company. Gave his philatelic library to RPSL.
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 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.
Napier was also a noted philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps of Brazil. In 1924 he was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work The stamps of the first issue of Brazil.
Napier's classification of the Bull's Eyes contained errors but has largely survived to this day as the most widely used system for describing the issue.
Napier was also knowledgeable about the stamps of Persia, North Borneo and Liberia. He compiled an index of the fourteen catalogues from the sale of the Ferrary collection.