Gerald Ellott
{{Short description|New Zealand architect and philatelist}}
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Gerald James Ellott {{postnominals|country=NZL|MNZM}} (1926 - 6 December 2024){{Cite web |title=ATL: Unpublished Collections |url=https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ethesaurus.352421 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=natlib.govt.nz}}{{Cite web |title=One of New Zealand’s foremost postal historians has died |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360530611/one-new-zealands-foremost-postal-historians-has-died |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}} was a New Zealand architect and philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1988.[http://www.abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011], Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130819000841/http://abps.org.uk/Awards/Roll_of_Distinguished_Philatelists/RDP_Background_20111231_LR.pdf Archived here.] He was a past president of the Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.[http://ellott-postalhistorian.com/ Gerald J. Ellott Postal History], 2016.
In the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours, Ellott was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to philately.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-honours-list-2008 |title=Queen's Birthday honours list 2008 |date=2 June 2008 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=1 February 2020}} Ellott has been awarded the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie Research Medal.[http://www.aps.gen.nz/excellence.htm THE NEW ZEALAND MEDAL OF PHILATELIC EXCELLENCE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506004801/http://www.aps.gen.nz/excellence.htm |date=6 May 2014 }} Auckland Philatelic Society, 2006. Retrieved 5 May 2014. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140506004801/http://www.aps.gen.nz/excellence.htm Archived here.]
Publications
- The Michael Sullivan Correspondence 1874 & 1882 to 1885. Forces Postal History Society and Society of Postal Historians, 2007.
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External links
- [http://ellott-postalhistorian.com/ Ellott's postal history website]
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Category:New Zealand philatelists
Category:Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Fellows of the Royal Philatelic Society London
Category:New Zealand architects
Category:Members of the New Zealand Order of Merit
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