George Ginger (1863 – 29 November 1938) was a British philatelist who signed the

Roll of Distinguished Philatelists The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists (RDP) is a Philately, philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921. The Roll consists of five pieces of parchment to which the signatories add their n ...

in 1934. Ginger was an expert on the stamps of Victoria and prominent in philatelic circles in Manchester. In 1930, Ginger was awarded the Tapling Medal by 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 ...

for his display of the Diadem stamps of New South Wales. His collection of philatelic material relating to Victoria for the period 1850 to 1883 forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. It was transferred from The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester in 2006.The Ginger Collection
British Library, 14 August 2014.

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Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists 1863 births 1938 deaths Philately of Australia British philatelists Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London {{UK-philatelist-stub