L.N. and M. Williams were a philatelic writing partnership made up of brothers Leon Norman Williams (known as Norman Williams) (25 March 1914 – 9 April 1999) and Maurice Williams (1905–1976).
Leon Norman Williams was born on 25 March 1914[1] and Maurice Williams in 1905.[2] Both were married and lived in London.[3]
Norman Williams was a barrister, while his brother Maurice Williams was a full-time journalist and writer.[3]
The brothers' writing collaboration began in 1934. In 1940 they succeeded Fred Melville as editors of the National Philatelic Society's journal The Stamp Lover which they edited until 1964. They also edited The British Philatelist from 1940 to 1954 and Philately from 1951 to 1953.[3] They edited The Cinderella Philatelist, journal of the Cinderella Stamp Club which they also founded, from 1961,[3] which Norman continued after his brother's death.
Their first book collaboration was The Propaganda Forgeries in 1938, a subject they returned to in 1954 with Forged Stamps of Two World Wars.
They were awarded the Glasewald Medal in 1961[4] and in 1980 were elected to the Philatelic Writers Hall of Fame of the American Philatelic Society.[2] In 2000, Norman became a member of the APS Hall of Fame.[5]
Norman Williams died on 9 April 1999[5] and Maurice Williams in 1976.[2] Their research papers are held in the British Library Philatelic Collections as the Williams Papers.[6]
Maurice Williams's grandson is the comedian Matt Lucas.[7]