Philip Saunders (philatelist)

He started in banking before the First World War but his career was interrupted by service in the Royal Flying Corps during the conflict.

In philately, he founded the British West Indies Study Circle (BWISC) in 1954 and wrote a survey of the postal history, postage stamps and postmarks of the Cayman Islands with Everard F. Aguilar that was published in 1962.

[1] He founded the British West Indies Study Circle in January 1954 and the same year joined the Royal Philatelic Society London, later becoming a fellow of that organisation.

[7] With Everard F. Aguilar, he wrote a standard book on the postal history, postage stamps, and postmarks of the Cayman Islands that was published in 1962.

[9] Saunders and Aguilar did identify two letters of 1805 from islanders to General Sir George Nugent, governor of Jamaica, held by a museum in Kingston, Jamaica, and a number of letters from the 1840s, thought to number seven or nine by John Byl, held in the archives of the Methodist Missionary Society.

The 1907 one penny surcharge on Cayman Islands 5 shilling stamps (one inverted) that were ignored by Saunders and Aguilar in their book. [ 6 ]
The Cayman Islands, Their Postal History, Postage Stamps and Postmarks by Saunders and Aguilar (1962)