John R. Holman

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.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20160303193752/http://www.gbstamps.com/gbcc/gbcc_holman_intvw.html