Major Adrian Edmund Hopkins MC (8 October 1894 – 1 March 1967) was a British

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who signed the

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in 1947.
Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011
', Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011
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/ref> He was wounded during World War I and lost an arm. Hopkins was the President and a founder member of the Postal History Society and three times Mayor of Bath (1937, 1938 and 1953).Who Was Who in British Philately

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Selected publications

*''Talks about postage stamps - Philately in Bristol''. 1927. *''A history of wreck covers originating at sea, on land, and in the air''. 1940.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, Adrian E. Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists 1894 births 1967 deaths British philatelists Mayors of Bath, Somerset Recipients of the Military Cross People from Bath, Somerset Royal Artillery officers British Army personnel of World War I British stamp dealers British amputees 20th-century British businesspeople British politicians with disabilities