Edward Chauncey Luard

[6] He became influential among the planter community in British Guiana and was active in the colony's politics as a member of the Court of Policy for East Demerara.

[5] Luard was a philatelist[8] whose collection of British Guiana stamps was sold to Pemberton, Wilson & Co. in 1890 and then to Philipp von Ferrary.

It included a pair of the 2c rose "cottonreel" stamps of 1851 on the cover that was later purchased by King George V and is now part of the Royal Philatelic Collection.

[10] In 1896, Luard wrote to The London Philatelist from Demerara that he had bought another pair of the 2c pink cottonreels on cover from the Rector of Christ Church, Georgetown, to whom they had been donated by a Miss Rose, an elderly lady parishioner.

The rector offered the impoverished Miss Rose a share of the sale price but she refused to accept anything, saying that she was pleased at last to be "able to give something worth while" to her church.