Name Ted Proud | Role Writer | |
Edward Wilfrid Baxby (Ted) Proud (18 April 1930 – 6 February 2017) was a British postal historian, philatelic writer, and philatelic dealer who, in 2008, was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.
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Early life and family
Ted Proud was born on 18 April 1930. His birth was registered in the Willesden district of London. Baxby was his mother's maiden name.
Proud married twice, firstly to Doreen J. Dolley in Bromley, Kent, in 1951, and secondly to Karoline U. Springer in Westminster, London, in 1966. He had a son, Hector, from his second marriage.
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, he won the Webb Cup from the Hong Kong Study Circle for his work The Postal History of Hong Kong 1841-1997.
In 2008, he was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists.
Philatelic trade
Proud founded the Proud-Bailey Company Limited in 1961 through which he published handbooks covering the postal history of over eighty different British colonies and which illustrate more than 50,000 postal markings. He was a past president of the International Federation of Stamp Dealers Associations and was the founder of Postal History International magazine in 1972. He was on the council of the Philatelic Traders Society.
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 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.
Death and legacy
Proud died on 6 February 2017. He received an obituary from Patrick Pearson in The London Philatelist.