John R. Holman

Who is John R. Holman?

John R. Holman was the editor of the British Philatelic Bulletin from 1988 till 2010 and a Fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society London.

Holman has been a philatelist since 1957 and his collecting interests include British private posts, postal stationery, postal labels, postmarks and government mail. He writes the long running and popular New Collector series in Gibbons Stamp Monthly.

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