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Trevor Cornford

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Trevor Robert Cornford (born 1949) is a British businessman, award-winning philatelist, and chairman of the Polar Postal History Society of Great Britain. He is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Early life

Trevor Cornford was born in April 1949.

Career

Cornford had a career in financial services and was a director of Tiercey Financial Management Limited.

Philately

Cornford is a specialist in polar philately and the chairman of the Polar Postal History Society of Great Britain.[1] He has displayed before the members of the Royal Philatelic Society London on the philately of Captain Scott's last expedition.[2] In November 2008, items from Cornford's polar exploration collection were sold at Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions in London.[3] In 2011, Cornford won a Large Vermeil medal in Sheffield for his display of the philately of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic voyages 1901-1922.

In January 1997, Cornford was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.[4]

References

  1. Polar Post, Vol. 46, No. 4, December 2014, p. 84.
  2. "Accounts of Meetings: Season 2009-10", The London Philatelist, Vol. 118, 2009, pp. 414-416.
  3. Auction of British Empire Postage Stamps & Postal History. Grosvenor Philatelic Auctions, 2008. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  4. "Meetings: Session 1996-1997", The Geographical Journal, Vol. 163, No. 2, (July 1997), p. 246.

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