[[File:British Guiana cover to Arthur Ferguson 1911.jpg|thumbnail|right|A cover addressed to Arthur Ferguson, 1911, bearing a 2c stamp with a Philatelic Exhibition commemorative cancel employed this day at the Carnegie Free Library, Georgetown.]] '''Arthur D. Ferguson''' FRMS (1869 – 24 May 1928) was a banker with the British Guiana Bank and a philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1923.<ref>''[http://www.abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011]'', Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819000841/http://abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Archived here.]</ref><ref name=abps>[http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter#F Who Was Who in British Philately], Association of British Philatelic Societies, 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713234319/http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter Archived here.]</ref> Ferguson was an expert in the stamps of British Guiana about which he wrote in ''The British Guiana Philatelic Journal''.<ref>[http://guyanastamps.com/2014/01/18/1850-51-british-guiana-cottonreels/ 1850-51 British Guiana Cottonreels] Guyana Philatelic Society, 18 January 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140512214902/http://guyanastamps.com/2014/01/18/1850-51-british-guiana-cottonreels/ Archived here.]</ref> He was the founder (1903) and Secretary of the British Guiana Philatelic Society.
He was a non-resident Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, now the Royal Commonwealth Society, elected 1909.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/1913yearbook00royauoft ''Royal Colonial Institute Year Book 1913''] Royal Colonial Institute, London, 1913, p. 130.</ref>
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