Harold Row

Richard Williams Harold Row (died 16 February 1919)^[1] was a philatelist who was one of the "Fathers of Philately" entered on the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.

Harold Row
Died	(1919-02-16)16 February 1919
Nationality	British
Alma mater	King's College London
Occupation	Philatelist

Row was an expert on the stamps of Siam and after his death, his collection was donated to the British Museum by his mother, Mrs Eliza Row. The Row Collection now forms part of the British Library Philatelic Collections. It covers the period 1883 to 1918 in 22 volumes and is mainly of unused material with many blocks, and strong in the various provisional surcharges. It also includes some postal stationery and issues used in Kedah and Kelantan.^[2]

A digital version of the Row Collection was published online in 2025 to support public access and research. High-resolution images and descriptive metadata are available through the Internet Archive. Archival catalogue records are structured to ISAD(G) standards and published on the Find an Archive section of The National Archives' Discovery database, where the collection is browsable at fonds, series, sub-series, and file level.

See also

• Postage stamps and postal history of Thailand
• The Row Collection, 1883–1918 at the Internet Archive
• The Row Collection entry in Find an Archive at The National Archives