Ted Proud

Edward Wilfrid Baxby (Ted) Proud (Born 18 April 1930)^{[citation needed]} is a pioneering British postal historian and philatelic writer who, in 2008, was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.

Proud won a gold medal for his display of Aden at Espana 2004 and exhibited "India used in Malaya" in the Court of Honour at Singapore. He is a past president of the International Federation of Stamp Dealers Associations and was the founder of Postal History International magazine in 1972.^[1]

Proud has covered over eighty different British colonies in his postal history books which illustrate more than 50,000 postal markings.

In 2005, Proud won the Webb Cup from the Hong Kong Study Circle for his work The Postal History of Hong Kong 1841-1997.^[2]

Ted lives in Sussex, England.

Selected publications

• The Postal History of British Palestine, 1918-48, 1985. ISBN 1-872465-05-6
• The Postal History of British Borneo, 1987. ISBN 1-872465-01-3
• British Post Offices in the Far East, 1992. ISBN 1-872465-09-9
• The Postal History of Kenya, 1992. ISBN 1-872465-12-9
• The Postal History of Nigeria, 1995. ISBN 1-872465-17-X
• The Postal History of Gold Coast, 1995. ISBN 1-872465-16-1
• The Postal History of Basutoland and Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1996. ISBN 1-872465-11-0
• The Postal History of Northern Rhodesia, 1997. ISBN 1-872465-21-8
• The Postal History of Southern Rhodesia, 1997. ISBN 1-872465-22-6
• The Postal History of British Honduras, 1999. ISBN 1-872465-27-7
• The Postal History of British Guiana, 2000. ISBN 1-872465-26-9
• The Postal History of Ascension, St Helena and Tristan Da Cunha, 2005. ISBN 1-872465-33-1
• The Postal History of Aden and Somaliland Protectorate, new edition 2005. ISBN 1-872465-41-2

References

1. ↑ American Philatelic Society press release 30 April 2008.
2. ↑ http://www.hongkongstudycircle.com/awards/WebbCup.htm List of Webb Cup winners. Retrieved 20 February 2010.