{{Short description|British philatelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Use British English|date=May 2015}} '''Radford Henry (Harry) Dagnall''' MA, AKC, FRPSL, (23 October 1914 – 9 March 2012<ref>"Radford Henry (Harry) Dagnall", by Alan Huggins, in ''The Postal Stationery Society Journal'', May 2012; [http://postalstationery.org.uk/Journal/Radford_Henry_Dagnall.htm copy on website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190504195456/http://postalstationery.org.uk/Journal/Radford_Henry_Dagnall.htm |date=4 May 2019 }}</ref>) was a British philatelist and Fellow of The Royal Philatelic Society London who made a lifetime's study of some of the by-ways of philately with a special interest in revenue philately.
He was educated at The King's School, Canterbury and King's College London. Dagnall's heyday as a philatelic writer was in the 1970s and 80's and his work was mostly in the form of pamphlets and short monographs on diverse subjects which caught his attention. His history of the British government Stamp Office, however, ''Creating a Good Impression'', was a longer work published by H.M. Stationery Office in 1994 to coincide with their 300th anniversary. In 1991, Dagnall's sight began to seriously fail and he gave up active philately at that time, though he continued to write as much as he could. A bibliography of his work was prepared during his lifetime by Ian D. Crane for private circulation and a bound copy was placed in the library of the Royal Philatelic Society.<ref name=rev>"Radford Henry (Harry) Dagnall, MA, AKC, FRPSL" in ''The Revenue Journal'', Vol. XXIII, No. 1 June 2012, pp. 4-5.</ref>
Outside philately, Dagnall was a technical writer in the patent department of the British Tabulating Machine Company which became ICT and ICL. He made frequent contributions to ''The Communicator'', the journal of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communications and also wrote on architecture, Biblical history and xerographic printing.<ref name=rev/> He was a regular contributor to ''The Quarterly'', the journal of The British Association of Paper Historians, with whom one of his works was jointly published in 1998<ref>[http://baph.org.uk/topreview.html ''The Taxation of Paper in Great Britain 1643-1861. A History and Documentation''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624060118/http://www.baph.org.uk/topreview.html |date=24 June 2013 }} Review by Richard Hills and Peter Bower, British Association of Paper Historians. Retrieved 8 September 2013.</ref> and he also contributed to journals as diverse as ''The Thai Times'' and ''The Wallpaper History Review''.<ref name=rev/>
==Selected publications== *''John Dickinson and his Silk Thread Paper''. Harry Dagnall, 1975. *''Postman's Park & its Memorials''. Harry Dagnall, Edgware, 1987. *''Paper Duty Labels: their history, background and use''. Harry Dagnall, Edgware, 1988. *''Post Horse Tickets: their historical background, purpose & use''. Harry Dagnall, Edgware, 1988. (With John H. Chandler) *''Creating a Good Impression: three hundred years of The Stamp Office and stamp duties''. HMSO, London, 1994. {{ISBN|0116414189}} *''The Taxation of Paper in Great Britain 1643-1861: A history and documentation''. Harry Dagnall & The British Association of Paper Historians, Edgware, 1998. {{ISBN|0951549774}} *''Taxation of the Printed Word: The introduction of stamp duty on almanacs and newspapers 1711 and 1712''. Harry Dagnall, Edgware, 1999. {{ISBN|0951549782}}
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==Further reading== *''Harry Dagnall, A Bibliography''. (2006) Kenton, Middx: Harry Dagnall. (privately circulated) {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Dagnall, Harry}} Category:1914 births Category:2012 deaths Category:People educated at The King's School, Canterbury Category:Alumni of King's College London Category:Associates of King's College London Category:Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London Category:British philatelists Category:Technical writers
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