Robert Blake Yardley

Robert Blake Yardley (1858–1943)[1] was a British Barrister and philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.[2] He was a member of the Yardley soap manufacturing family.

Yardley's worldwide collection was auctioned by H.R. Harmer over sixteen days in 1944–45.[2]

Publications
  • The Dies of the Postage Stamps of Portugal of the Reigns of Dona Maria II and Dom Pedro V. 1907.
  • The Samoa Express Postage Stamps. 1916.
gollark: So you get them in things like the Poisson distribution.
gollark: Oh, as well as the derivative thing, e and e^x have nice series expansions.
gollark: Anyway, it's a good and useful number.
gollark: Because of course those are different.
gollark: Oh, Euler's *number*.

References
  1. Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
  2. Who Was Who in British Philately, Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2014. Retrieved 29 April 2014. Archived here.


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