Harold Row

Harold Row
Died	16 February 1919
Nationality	British
Alma mater	King's College London
Occupation	Philatelist

Richard Williams Harold Row (died 16 February 1919)[1] was a philatelist who was one of the "Fathers of Philately" entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.

Row was an expert on the stamps of Siam and after his death, his collection was donated to the British Museum by his mother, Mrs Eliza Row. The Row Collection now forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. It covers the period 1883 to 1918 in 22 volumes and is mainly of unused material with many blocks, and strong in the various provisional surcharges. It also includes some postal stationery and issues used in Kedah and Kelantan.[2]

References

1. "The 'Harold Row' Collection of the Stamps of Siam" by Edward Denny Bacon in The London Philatelist, Vol. XXIX, February 1920, No. 338, pp. 24-25.
2. The Row Collection. British Library, 2012. Retrieved 24 December 2012. Archived here.