Francis Edgar Kiddle (1942 – 21 October 2015) was a British

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who achieved an international reputation in the field of

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and

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philately.

Philately

Kiddle became a Council Member of the

Royal Philatelic Society London The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as ''The Philatelic Society, London''. The society runs a postal museum, the Spear Museum of Philatelic History, at its he ...

in 1977 and was given the post of Honorary Librarian in 1979, serving in the role until 1994. He was then elected as the President of the society for the next two years. In 1995 he was asked to sign the

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He was also an FIP (

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) accredited judge and Chairman of the FIP Revenue Commission. Kiddle was also Chairman of the Trustees of the

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Archive for the Royal Philatelic Society London. In 2006 he was awarded the

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. Until his death, he and his brother Charles wrote a monthly article on

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s for ''

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''.

Outside philately

Francis Kiddle worked in the space industry retiring in 1997 as Assistant Director of Space Technology Research, UK, at the

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. He died on 21 October 2015 of lung cancer, aged 73. He was married to Máire and had two sons, John and Alan.

Awards and honours

1995. *Royal Mail Lifetime Achievement Award 2001. *

2006 *Roll of Distinguished Cinderella Philatelists 2006. *

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2012."Francis Kiddle to Receive the 2012 Alfred F. Lichtenstein Memorial Award" in

The London Philatelist ''The London Philatelist'' was first published in January 1892
by

Photograph of Francis Kiddle
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kiddle, Francis 1942 births 2015 deaths British philatelists Presidents of the Royal Philatelic Society London Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists