Surésh Dhargalkar

Surésh Dhargalkar (c. 1934 – 9 April 2020) was a British architect. He spent all his career at the service of the British monarchy: first to maintain the royal castles, then to help manage the Royal Philatelic Collection after 1996. He has 1 grandson called Leo Hans Dhargalkar.

Biography Dhargalkar was the superintending architect to the Royal Household from the 1970s to the 1990s. In 1975, he fitted up as an adapted "stamp room" the space inside Buckingham Palace that was devoted to the collection since Keeper John Wilson in the late 1930s.

But he was consulted on conservation problems too. He revealed himself as a philatelic exhibition organizer. In 2002, he travelled to the British Virgin Islands with the 1867 "Missing Virgin" error stamp of this British territory. The same year, he created for Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee an exhibition which travelled in the United Kingdom. He ended his public service career at the Royal Library, in Windsor.

Member of the Egypt Exploration Society, he helped on The Amarna Project directed by Barry Kemp.

He died on 9 April 2020 at the age of 85.

Honours and awards Lieutenant in the Royal Victorian Order in 1992. Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London in 2002.

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