John Richard Holman FRPSL (4 February 1950 - 10 June 2017)[1] was the editor of the British Philatelic Bulletin from 1988 to 2010 and a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London.

Holman had been a philatelist since 1957 and his collecting interests include British private posts, postal stationery, postal labels, postmarks and government mail.[2] He was the author of the long-running and popular "New Collector" series in Gibbons Stamp Monthly.

Holman was a former civil servant and a past employee of the stamp dealers Stanley Gibbons. His cousin was David Beech, curator of the philatelic collection at the British Library.

References

  1. ↑ British Philatelic Bulletin, July 2017, p. 333.
  2. ↑ http://www.gbstamps.com/gbcc/gbcc_holman_intvw.html Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 12 October 2010.


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