Edward Wilfrid Baxby Proud (Born 1930) is a pioneering British postal historian

Postal history

Postal history is the study of postal systems and how they operate and, or, the study of postage stamps and covers and associated material illustrating historical episodes of postal systems...

 and philatelic writer who in 2008 was invited to sign the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists

Roll of Distinguished Philatelists

The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists is a philatelic award of international scale, created by the Philatelic Congress of Great Britain in 1921...

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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. He is a past president of the International Federation of Stamp Dealers Associations and was the founder of Postal History International magazine in 1972.

Proud has covered over eighty different British colonies in his postal history books which illustrate more than 50,000 postal markings.

In 2005 Proud won the Webb Cup from the Hong Kong Study Circle

Hong Kong Study Circle

The Hong Kong Study Circle was founded in 1951 to record and circulate information on the postage stamps and postal history of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports.- Publications :...

for his work The Postal History of Hong Kong 1841-1997.

Ted lives in Sussex, England.

Selected publications

• The Postal History of British Palestine, 1918-48, 1985. ISBN 1872465056
• The Postal History of British Borneo, 1987. ISBN 1872465013
• British Post Offices in the Far East, 1992. ISBN 1872465099
• The Postal History of Kenya, 1992. ISBN 1872465129
• The Postal History of Nigeria, 1995. ISBN 187246517X
• The Postal History of Gold Coast, 1995. ISBN 1872465161
• The Postal History of Basutoland and Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1996. ISBN 1872465110
• The Postal History of Northern Rhodesia, 1997. ISBN 1872465218
• The Postal History of Southern Rhodesia, 1997. ISBN 1872465226
• The Postal History of British Honduras, 1999. ISBN 1872465277
• The Postal History of British Guiana, 2000. ISBN 1872465269
• The Postal History of Ascension, St Helena and Tristan Da Cunha, 2005. ISBN 1872465331
• The Postal History of Aden and Somaliland Protectorate, new edition 2005. ISBN 1872465412