Bacon, Sir Edward Denny

BACON, Sir Edward Denny 1860-1938. Son of Edward Bacon, Ilford Hall, Essex. President RPSL 1917. Inaugurated Expert Committee in 1893. Crawford Medal 1921, for 'The Line-Engraved Postage Stamps of Great Britain' [1920 (Supp.1929)]. Tapling Medal, 1933, for paper on 1d and 6d stamps of Victoria 1860-66. Catalogued Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford, 1911 (Supps.1926 & 1938). Wrote 'The Stamp Collector' (with William John Hardy) 1898. With FJHS Napier, 'St. Vincent' [1895], 'Barbados' [1896], 'Grenada' [1902]. 'Reprints of Postal Adhesive Stamps and their Characteristics' [1899]. 'The Postage Stamps of the Turks Islands' [1917]. Compiled supplements, 1922 and 1927, to 'The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of British India' [1907]. The following papers by him were reprinted from the London Philatelist: 'The Stamps of the Straits Settlements of Queen Victoria's Reign' [1924], 'Mr Charles Lathrop Pack's Work on Victoria' [1934], 'Notes on the Stamps of the Fiji Islands' [1927], 'The Stamps of the Pacific Steam Navigation Co.' [1928], 'The Half-Anna Lithographed Stamps of India 1854-55' (Review) [1930], 'Supplement to Handbook on St Vincent' [1934]. Arranged Tapling Collection in British Museum, his collection of postcards being joined with those of Tapling. Had fine collection of Japan. Appointed Curator of Royal Philatelic Collection, 1913. Lindenberg Medal, 1906. RDP 1921. MVO 1917, CVO 1922, KCVO 1932. Tapling Collection now at the British Library.

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