ALCOCK, Ronald Cecil d.1991 age 86. Dealer and publisher in Cheltenham. Issued ‘Alcock’s Weekly News’. Published ‘The Penny Red Pamphlet, being a Treatise on the Line-engraved Stamps of Great Britain from Mr.Hill’s One Penny Black of 1840 to the Three-Half-Pence Red of 1870’, ‘The Alphabets of the British Line-engraved Stamps’, ‘Scots Local cancellations Illustrated, 1854-60’, and ‘Archer Plates’ by Dr C Gardiner-. Compiled with CW Meredith ‘British Postage Stamp Varieties Illustrated’ [1949]. Author, with FC Holland, of the classic ‘Postmarks of Great Britain and Ireland, Being a Survey of British Postmarks from 1660 to 1940’, (579 pages) [1940], and supplements thereto, and of ‘British Postmarks, A Short History and Guide’.