H. R. Holmes
Deceased Person
1896 – 1989
Who was H. R. Holmes?
Henry Robert "Bob" Holmes was President of the Royal Philatelic Society London 1961-64 and signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1953.
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.
He won a silver medal at the Jubilee International Exhibition 1912, the Brandt Prize in 1941 and the Lichtenstein Medal in 1969.
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