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Henry Robert "Bob" Holmes (11 May 1895〔Bateman, Robert. ''Stamp collectors' who's who''. London: Stanley Gibbons, 1960, p. 46.〕 - 22 January 1989〔"Henry Robert Holmes - Distinguished Past President" by A. Ronald Butler in The London Philatelist, March–April 1989, No. 1155-56, Vol. 98, pp. 37-38.〕) was President of the Royal Philatelic Society London 1961-64 and signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1953.〔(Who Was Who in British Philately. ) Association of British Philatelic Societies 2010. Retrieved 19 December 2011.〕 From 1947 Holmes was an Honorary Curator of the philatelic collections at the British Museum, now constituted as the British Library Philatelic Collections. He was an expert on the stamps of Bermuda and Bechuanaland, and a corresponding member of L'Académie de Philatélie. His papers on the postage stamps of Griqualand West 1877 and the provisional issue of the Republic of Honduras were reprinted from The London Philatelist, of which he was also the editor July 1946 to December 1954.〔"Editorship of the London Philatelist" by Frank Walton in ''The London Philatelist'', No. 1287, July–August 2001, Vol. 110, p. 182.〕 He won a silver medal at the ''Jubilee International Exhibition 1912'', the ''Brandt Prize'' in 1941 and the Lichtenstein Medal in 1969. ==Selected publications== *''The Postage Stamps of Bermuda''. 1932. *''Stamps of the Private Byposts of Norway''. 1938. * ''The Postage Stamps of Tibet''. 1941. * ''The Postage Stamps, Postal Stationery, and Postmarks of the Bechuanalands.'' Royal Philatelic Society London, 1971. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「H. R. Holmes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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