page_title: Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
section_title: 1921
hierarchical_section_title: Roll of Distinguished Philatelists / List of signatories / 1921
caption_attribution_description: Sir Charles Stewart Wilson (1864-20 July 1950)
context_page_description: The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists is a philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921. The Roll consists of three pieces of parchment to which the signatories add their names.
context_section_description: Among the forty first signatories are twenty-four out of the twenty-five proposed by the initial jury in 1920:
  Peter John Anderson (1853–1926, United Kingdom), bibliophile and historian of philatelic literature.
  Dr. Justus Anderssen (1867–1938, Norway), specialist of the stamps of Norway.
  Edward Denny Bacon (1860–1938, United Kingdom), President of the Philatelic Society London from 1917 to 1923, Curator of the Royal Philatelic Collection from 1913 to 1938.
  Arthur Thomas Bate (c. 1850–1922, New Zealand), specialist of the stamps of New Zealand.
  Walter Dorning Beckton (1866–1931, United Kingdom), precursor of the "scientific philately" and of the "Manchester School", President of the Manchester Philatelic Society, of the first Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1909 and of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1929 to 1931.
  Carroll Chase (1878-1960, United States), specialist of the stamps of the United States, President of the American Philatelic Society in 1920 and 1922.
  Emilio Diena (1860–1941, Italy), specialist of the stamps of the Italian States.
  Robert Brisco Earée (1846–1928, United Kingdom), specialist of the forged stamps.
  Edward Benjamin Evans (1846–1922, United Kingdom).
  Louis Hanciau (1835–1924, Belgium), brother-in-law and associate of Jean-Baptiste Moens.
  Harry L. Hayman (1850–1927, United Kingdom).
  Arthur Francis Basset Hull (1862–1945, Australia), specialist of the stamps of the Australian colonies.
  Clifton A. Howes (vers 1860–1936, United States), specialist of North America, the United Kingdom and some Eastern Asian countries, President of the American Philatelic Society from 1915 to 1917.
  William Russell Lane-Joynt (1855–1921, United Kingdom), Honorary Curator of the Duke of Leinster's collection at the Dublin Museum of Science and Art.
  Umejiro Kimura (1869–1927, Japan), specialist of the stamps of Japan, President of Yuraku-kai from 1912 to 1927.
  John Nicholas Luff (United States), founding member of the Collectors Club of New York and President of the American Philatelic Society.
  Charles James Phillips (1863–1940, United Kingdom, then United States), owner of Stanley Gibbons from 1890 to 1922, then a rare stamp dealer in New York.
  Bertram William Henry Poole (1880–1950, United States), philatelic journalist, specialist of Haiti and Latin America, and a stamp dealer after 1916.
  Winter Charles Renouf (1868–1954, India), marcophilelatist specialist of British India.
  William Reynolds Ricketts (1869–1945, United States), bibliophile.
  Axel de Reuterskiöld (Switzerland), specialist of the stamps of Switzerland.
  Charles Esterly Severn (United States), philatelic journalist.
  Emil Tamsen (1861–1957, South Africa), specialist of British Africa.
  Robert Blake Yardley (1858–1943, United Kingdom), President of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1931 to 1934.
  Chosen by the 1920 jury, the British A. B. Creeke was forgotten by the Philatelic Congress' subcommittee in 1921.
  The subcommittee added fifteen philatelists in 1921 with a larger majority of Britons than in the 1920 jury's selection.
  Percy Cooke Bishop (1869–1961, United Kingdom), philatelic journalist and proposer of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelist.
  Lionel William Fulcher (1865–1945, United Kingdom), first organizer of the Royal Philatelic Society London's library whom he was the Honorary Librarian from 1903 to 1928.
  Hugo Griebert (1867–1924, United Kingdom), London stamp dealer and author.
  Thomas William Hall (1861–1937, United Kingdom), President of the Royal Philatelic Society London from 1923 to 1929.
  David Haworth Hill (1851–1926, Australia), specialist of the stamps of the State of Victoria.
  John Morris Marsden (1857–1939, United Kingdom), specialist of Portugal and its colonies.
  Frederick John Melville (1883–1940, United Kingdom), writer and bibliophile, founder of the Junior Philatelic Society in 1899.
  Francis John Hamilton Scott Napier (1850–1929, United Kingdom), author.
  Charles Lathrop Pack (1857–1937, United States), spécialist, among other topics, of the stamps figuring Queen Victoria.
  Percival Loines Pemberton (1875–1949, Uni
caption: Charles Stewart Wilson
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