Arthur D. Ferguson

Arthur D. Ferguson FRMS (1869 – 24 May 1928) was a banker with the British Guiana Bank and a philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1923.[1][2] Ferguson was an expert in the stamps of British Guiana about which he wrote in The British Guiana Philatelic Journal.[3] He was the founder (1903) and Secretary of the British Guiana Philatelic Society.

A cover addressed to Arthur Ferguson, 1911, bearing a 2c stamp with a Philatelic Exhibition commemorative cancel employed this day at the Carnegie Free Library, Georgetown.

He was a non-resident Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, now the Royal Commonwealth Society, elected 1909.[4]

References
  1. Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
  2. Who Was Who in British Philately, Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014. Archived here.
  3. 1850-51 British Guiana Cottonreels Guyana Philatelic Society, 18 January 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014. Archived here.
  4. Royal Colonial Institute Year Book 1913 Royal Colonial Institute, London, 1913, p. 130.


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