Charles Stanhope Foster Crofton (16 April 1873 – April 1909) thepeerage.com Retrieved 13 August 2011 /ref> was a British philatelist and a member of the
Indian Civil Service
The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947.
Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...
Association of British Philatelic Societies
The Association of British Philatelic Societies, commonly known as the ''ABPS'', is the British national association of philatelic societies, regional philatelic federations, and specialist philatelic societies.Trinity College, Cambridge
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Philately
Crofton specialised in the philately of India and Ceylon. He had a special interest in the
telegraph
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and
revenue stamp
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s of the area. He was a member of the
Philatelic Society of India
The Philatelic Society of India (PSI) was formed in 1897The Fiscal Philatelic Society.
He wrote most of part II (telegraph stamps) of ''The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of British India''. His ''Fiscal and Telegraph Stamps of Ceylon'' was published posthumously from his notes after editing by B. Gordon-Jones.
Death
Crofton died from cholera in Ahmednagar, Deccan where he was the resident magistrate and collector."Death of Mr. C. S. Crofton." in ''
The London Philatelist
''The London Philatelist'' was first published in January 1892 by
Wilmot Corfield
William Wilmot Corfield (1859 - 27 October 1919)"Wilmot Corfield." in ''The London Philatelist'', Vol. XXVIII, No. 335, November 1919, p. 253. was a British philatelist who was an important figure in Anglo-Indian philately. By his own account, he ...
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*''The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of British India''. London:
Stanley Gibbons
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for the
Philatelic Society of India
The Philatelic Society of India (PSI) was formed in 1897L.L.R. Hausburg and C. Stewart-Wilson.)
*''The Fiscal and Telegraph Stamps of Ceylon''. Ed. B. Gordon Jones. London: Bridger & Kay for the Philatelic Society of India, 1911. (Posthumously)