Arthur D. Ferguson

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.

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.

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

  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.