Francis Edgar Kiddle (1942 – 21 October 2015) was a British philatelist who achieved an international reputation in the field of philatelic literature and cinderella philately.
[1] Kiddle became a Council Member of the Royal Philatelic Society London in 1977 and was given the post of Honorary Librarian in 1979, serving in the role until 1994.
In 1995 he was asked to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists[2] He was also an FIP (Federation Internationale de Philatelie) accredited judge and Chairman of the FIP Revenue Commission.
From 2005 he was the Curator of the Perkins Bacon Archive for the Royal Philatelic Society London.
Francis Kiddle worked in the space industry retiring in 1997 as Assistant Director of Space Technology Research, UK,[1] at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency.