Ted Proud

Edward Wilfrid Baxby (Ted) Proud (born April 1930)^[1] is a British postal historian, philatelic writer, and philatelic dealer who, in 2008, was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists. He lives in Sussex, England.

Collecting

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.

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]

In 2008, he was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.^[3]

Philatelic trade

Proud founded Proud-Bailey Company Limited in 1961 through which he has published handbooks covering the postal history of over eighty different British colonies and which illustrate more than 50,000 postal markings. He is a past president of the International Federation of Stamp Dealers Associations and was the founder of Postal History International magazine in 1972.^[4] He was on the council of the Philatelic Traders Society.^[5]

Proud-Bailey became a major postal history dealer. In March 1987, Proud sold the firm to Stanley Gibbons, as a result of which he became joint deputy-chairman of Stanley Gibbons. The consideration for the sale was £1.6m, satisfied by the issue of 13 million new ordinary 10p shares in Stanley Gibbons at 12.25p each.^[5]

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

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