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Edward Wilfrid Baxby (Ted) Proud (18 April 1930 – 6 February 2017) was a British postal historian, philatelic writer, and philatelic dealer who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2008.

Early life and family

Ted Proud was born on 18 April 1930.^[1] His birth was registered in the Willesden district of London. Baxby was his mother's maiden name.^[2]

Proud married twice, firstly to Doreen J. Dolley in Bromley, Kent, in 1951,^[3] and secondly to Karoline Ulrike Springer in Westminster, London, in 1966.^[4]

Philately

Proud founded the Proud-Bailey Company Limited in 1961^[5] through which he published handbooks covering the postal history of over eighty different British colonies and which illustrate more than 50,000 postal markings. Proud-Bailey became a major postal history dealer. He sold the firm to Stanley Gibbons in March 1987, as a result of which he became joint deputy-chairman of that firm. 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.^[6]

He was a past president of the International Federation of Stamp Dealers Associations and was the founder of Postal History International magazine in 1972.^[1] He was on the council of the Philatelic Traders Society.^[6] He 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, he won the Webb Cup from the Hong Kong Study Circle for his work The Postal History of Hong Kong 1841-1997.^[7]

Death and legacy

Proud died on 6 February 2017.^[9] He received an obituary from Patrick Pearson in The London Philatelist.^[1] The copyright to his books was owned by a charity known as the International Postal Museum which also owned the copyright to the works of Ronald Alcock, both of which were given to the Royal Philatelic Society London after Proud's death along with the stock of unsold books, his research information and the cash funds of the charity.^[10]

Selected publications

Proud wrote and published handbooks in three principal series along with a selection of other works and one non-philatelic book on S.M.S.Emden.^[11] In some cases, he was the co-author.

Commonwealth Military Postal History Series

General Postal History Series

Postal History of the British Colonies Series

Other

References

1. ^¹²"Edward Wilfrid Baxby (Ted) Proud Obituary", Patrick Pearson, The London Philatelist, Vol. 126, No. 1444 (April 2017), p. 140.
2. ^[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVQ3-LXBT Edward W B Proud England and Wales Birth Registration Index.] FamilySearch. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
3. ^[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVD8-7M4X Edward W B Proud mentioned in the record of Dolley and Edward W B Proud.] FamilySearch. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
4. ^[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QV6C-9XVG Edward W B Proud mentioned in the record of Springer and Edward W B Proud.] FamilySearch. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
5. ^News 08.02.2017 - Legendary Postal History Author Ted Proud dies. Association Internationale des Journalistes Philatéliques, 8 February 2017. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
6. ^¹"Newsdesk: Stanley Gibbons Acquire Proud-Bailey". Gibbons Stamp Monthly, May 1987, p. 9.
7. ^Winners of the Webb Cup. Hong Kong Study Circle. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
8. ^Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. [https://www.webcitation.org/6OlHSBOTl Archived here.]
9. ^"Membership News", The London Philatelist, Vol. 126, No. 1443 (March 2017), p. 90.
10. ^"Edward B Proud PDP", The London Philatelist, Vol. 126, No. 1450 (November 2017), p. 434.
11. ^Resource of the Month – Edward Proud's Series of Postal History Publications. Scott Tiffney, Philatelic Literature & Research, 2 January 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2019.