{{Short description|British philatelist (1867–1950)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=May 2015}} {{Infobox engineer |image = |image_size = (if image is smaller than 250px) |caption = |name = James Benjamin Seymour |birth_date = 28 November 1867 |birth_place = |death_date = {{death-date and age|11 June 1950|28 November 1867}} |death_place = |education = |spouse = |parents = |children = |discipline = |institutions = International Philatelic Union<br/>Royal Philatelic Society London <br/> l'Academie de Philatélie |practice_name = |significant_projects = Created world famous collection of Great Britain stamps |significant_design = |significant_advance = |significant_awards = APS Hall of Fame <br/>Roll of Distinguished Philatelists }}
'''James Benjamin Seymour''' (28 November 1867 – 11 June 1950), of Great Britain, was a philatelist who created an award-winning collection, and who wrote some of the key works in British philately.
==Collecting interests== Seymour collected stamps of Great Britain and created a collection of stamps and postal history of that country that won numerous awards at national and international exhibitions.
After his death, his collection was auctioned by Robson Lowe.
==Philatelic literature== James Seymour contributed the section on British line engraved stamps in the Kohl Briefmarken-Handbuch, published in Germany in 1923. He and the editor, Dr Herbert Munk jointly received the Sieger Medal in 1931 for the best philatelic work in the German language that year.<ref name="www">[http://www.ukphilately.org.uk/bpt/whowaswho/whowaswho-s.htm Profile at Who Was Who In British Philately] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305110805/http://www.ukphilately.org.uk/bpt/whowaswho/whowaswho-s.htm |date=5 March 2009 }}.</ref> Seymour was also the author of ''Stamps of Great Britain: The Line-engraved Issues, 1840 to 1853''. He completed a revised edition of the book in 1950.
==Philatelic activity== Seymour was active within the philatelic community. He served both the International Philatelic Union and the Royal Philatelic Society London as president. And, at the l'Academie de Philatélie, he was elected as a corresponding member. Seymour was also a member of the Fiscal Philatelic Society.
==Honors and awards== James Benjamin Seymour received numerous philatelic awards from his and other countries. He signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1931 and was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1951.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stamps.org/Almanac/alm_halloffame_1950-54.htm#Seymour |title=Profile at the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame |access-date=30 April 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020705195543/http://www.stamps.org/Almanac/alm_halloffame_1950-54.htm#Seymour |archive-date=5 July 2002 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Outside philately == Seymour was a President of The Magic Circle.<ref name="www"/>
==See also== * Philately * Philatelic literature
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