Albert Leonard "Mick" Michael (January 1912[citation needed] – 7 November 1987[1]) was a British philatelist who was added to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1978.
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Michael's first employment in the stamp trade was with H.E. Wingfield, a firm which he eventually owned. In 1962 Wingfield joined with Stanley Gibbons and Michael became joint managing director of that firm and chairman six years later. He retired in 1989.[2]
References
edit- ^ Background notes on The Roll of Distinguished Philatelists September 2011, Roll of Distinguished Philatelists Trust, London, 2011. Archived here.
- ^ "Obituary Albert Leonard Michael", Stan Zimmerman, Gibbons Stamp Monthly, January 1988, p. 11.