W. R. D. Wiggins Explained

Honorific Prefix:	FFARCS
William Robert Denison Wiggins
Birth Date:	4 April 1913
Nationality:	British
Occupation:	Philatelist
Profession:	Surgeon

Dr. William Robert Denison Wiggins FFARCS MRCS (4 April 1913^[1] – 17 October 1992^[2]) was a British medical practitioner and philatelist who in 1963 was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part II.^[3]

Selected publications

• The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Part 2: Perforated line-engraved issues, London: Royal Philatelic Society London, 2nd ed., 1962. (Editor)
• The plating of alphabet II : plates 1 to 21, AA to TL. 1974.
• British line engraved stamps : repaired impressions : 1855-1879, one penny die II. Robson Lowe, 1982.

Notes and References

1. Bateman, Robert. Stamp collectors' who's who. London: Stanley Gibbons, 1960, p. 93.
2. "Newsdesk" in Gibbons Stamp Monthly, December 1992, p. 9.
3. The Society's medals and honorary fellowship. The Royal Philatelic Society London, 2009, p. 4.