Walter Dorning Beckton

[3] Greece and Italy were two of his particular interests and in competitive philately he won medals for his Greece, Straits Settlements, Japan, British West Indies, and Romania.

[6] Beckton was one of the Manchester school of philately which advocated the scientific study of all aspects of stamp production including paper, watermark, printing and perforation.

He was president of the Manchester Philatelic Society for thirty-five years consecutively.

Beckton's death was unexpected, reportedly from "angina pectoris", over the night of 17–18 March 1931 while he was still president of the Royal.

[2] Selected papers and articles reprinted from The London Philatelist:

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