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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Lionel Edward Dawson''' (1887<ref>"Distinguished Philatelists - Further Addenda" by [[Wolfgang Hellrigl|Wolfgang C. Hellrigl]] in ''[[The London Philatelist]]'', Vol. 116, p. 188.</ref>–1976<ref name=abps>[http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter#D Who Was Who in British Philately] [[Association of British Philatelic Societies]] 2010. Retrieved 16 August 2011.</ref>) was a [[philatelist]] who won the [[Crawford Medal]] from the [[Royal Philatelic Society London]] for his paper on ''The One Anna and Two Annas Postage Stamps of India, 1854-55''. He was an expert on the stamps of India and the Feudatory States and signed the [[Roll of Distinguished Philatelists]] in 1961.<ref name=abps/><br />
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Dawson was the Editor of the ''Philatelic Journal of India'' between 1934 and 1944. In 1954 he delivered a paper to ''The Royal'' on "The Locally Printed Stamps of Tibet, 1912-1953" which was subsequently printed in [[The London Philatelist]]<ref>Vol. 63, pp. 30-35.</ref> and in 1955 he won the [[Tilleard Medal]] from the society for his display of Indian Feudatory States.<ref name=abps/><br />
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A photograph of L.E. Dawson in a tweed jacket appears on page 2 in the catalog of his collection sold by Robson Lowe on 9 November 1966.{{cn|date=June 2019}}<br />
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== Publications ==<br />
*''The Postage Stamps of Jammu & Kashmir Simplified''. Lahore: Philatelic Society of India, 1937. (With [[E.A. Smythies]]) [https://web.archive.org/web/20110827093509/http://www.kashmirstamps.ca/DawsonContents.html Online excerpts.]<br />
*''The One Anna & Two Annas Postage Stamps of India, 1854-55''. Birmingham: [[H. Garratt-Adams & Co.]] for the [[Philatelic Society of India]], 1948.<br />
*''The Postage Stamps of Nepal''. New York: The Collectors Club, 1952. (with E.A. Smythies and [[H.D.S. Haverbeck]])<br />
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