Fred Melville

Frederick John Melville
Portrait of Melville from the 1930s
Born25 February 1882[citation needed]
Edinburgh
Died12 January 1940 (1940-01-13) (aged 57)
London
NationalityBritish
Other namesFred
OccupationJournalist & Philatelic Author
Known forPhilatelic literature
Fred Melville in The Philatelic Record 1908.
Fred Melville, as pictured in Gibbons Stamp Weekly, February 1905, at the time of the Junior Philatelic Exhibition.

Frederick John Melville (25 February 1882 – 12 January 1940)[1] was a British philatelist, prolific philatelic author and founder of The Junior Philatelic Society. He was also a founder in 1907 of the Philatelic Literature Society.[2][3] Melville is a member of the American Philatelic Society's Hall of Fame and was a signatory to The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1921.

  1. ^ Schofield, Brian. Who Was Who in British Philately. London: British Philatelic Trust, 2003, p.34. ISBN 1-871777-14-3 Online version here Archived 13 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ Frederick John Melville Archived 17 August 2002 at the Wayback Machine at the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame, 1999. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
  3. ^ "The Philatelic Literature Society" in The London Philatelist, Vol. XVI, No.191, November 1907, p.264.