Colonel Denys Richard Martin (11 October 1892Bateman, Robert. ''Stamp collectors' who's who''. London:
Stanley Gibbons
The Stanley Gibbons Group plc is a company quoted on the London Stock Exchange specialising in the retailing of collectable postage stamps and similar products. The group is incorporated in London. The company is a major stamp dealer and philat ...
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.philatelist. As a systematic scholar and prolific writer, Martin illuminated some of the most difficult topics and set a high standard for the study of the
postage stamps and postal history of India
Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans. When the Portuguese India, Portuguese, Dutch India, Dutch, French India, French, Danish India, Danish and Briti ...
and Burma.
Life
As a regular British Army officer of the
Royal Engineers
The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the ''Sappers'', is a corps of the British Army. It provides military engineering and other technical support to the British Armed Forces and is heade ...
, Martin arrived in India during the First World War and travelled throughout the subcontinent during the next twenty years.
Philately
Martin's collection included postal history material from the Persian Field Force, the Abyssinian campaigns and the Treaty Ports, which are now in the Government of India's collection.
He was a member of the India Study Circle.India Study Circle home page /ref>
* ''Half Anna Lithographed Stamps of India''. 1928. (With E.A. Smythies)
* ''The Four Annas Lithographed Stamps of India, 1854-55.'' London:
Philatelic Society of India
The Philatelic Society of India (PSI) was formed in 1897Stanley Gibbons
The Stanley Gibbons Group plc is a company quoted on the London Stock Exchange specialising in the retailing of collectable postage stamps and similar products. The group is incorporated in London. The company is a major stamp dealer and philat ...
, 1930. (With E.A. Smythies)
* Five appendices in L. E. Dawson, ''The One Anna and Two Annas Postage Stamps of India, 1854-55.'' Philatelic Society of India, H. Garratt-Adams & Co. and Stanley Gibbons, Ltd., London (1948): Die I, A Stone, No. 7 - p. 66; Die I, B Stone, Nos. 2, 28 and 64 - p. 67; India, 1854. Pin Perforated - p. 73; One Anna, 1854, Numbers Printed - p. 75; and The Two Annas, 1854, Some Problems - p. 81..
* ''Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps, 1948-49,'' London:
Robson Lowe
John Harry Robson Lowe (7 January 1905, London – 19 August 1997, Bournemouth) was an English professional philatelist, stamp dealer and stamp auctioneer.
Life and career
Lowe is regarded by philatelists as the father of postal history, ha ...
, 1959.
* ''The Second Afghan War''. 1961.
* ''The Bombay-Karachi Sea Post Office''. 1963. (With G.C. Danby)
* ''Indian Travelling Post Offices 1864-1891.'' London: Robson Lowe, 1969. First printed in ''The Philatelist.''
* ''Numbers in Early Indian Cancellations,'' London: Robson Lowe, 1970.
* ''Burma Postal History, Including the 1987 Supplement.'' London: Robson Lowe, 1971. (With Gerald Davis.)
* ''Overseas Letter Postage from India 1854-1876''. 1975. (editor with Neil Blair)