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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.

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.