Kenneth Rowe (philatelist)

{{Short description|British philatelist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Kenneth Rowe '''Kenneth Rowe''' (22 December 1924 – 5 July 2014) was a British philatelist who in 1995 was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.<ref>"Newsdesk: Five New Distinguished Philatelists", ''Gibbons Stamp Monthly'', Vol. 68, No. 12, May 1995, p. 5.</ref><ref>"The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists", ''The London Philatelist'', Vol. 104, No. 1225 (May 1995), pp. 103-104.</ref> He was a specialist in the history of forwarding agents, intermediaries who facilitated the routing of international mail before the development of the modern postal system.

Rowe received the Canada Centennial medal in 1967 and the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee medal in 1977.<ref>[http://www.aijp.org/aktuelles.php?nId=2&nLang=2&nAid=1317&PHPSESSID=news In Memoriam Kenneth Rowe.] Association Internationale des Journalistes Philatéliques, 25 September 2014. Retrieved 12 October 2016.</ref>

==Selected publications== * ''The postal history and markings of the forwarding agents''. (1st edition 1966, supplement 1974, 2nd ed. 1984, 3rd ed. 1996. {{ISBN|0-917528-12-3}}) *''The postal history of the Canadian contingents in the Anglo-Boer War''. Vincent G. Greene Philatelic Research Foundation, Canada, 1981.

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== External links == *http://pbbooks.com/webfai.htm

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