Evelyn Arthur Smythies, CIE (19 March 1885[1] – 10 January 1975[2]), was a distinguished forester and philatelist, born of British parents in India.
His careful studies of the earliest postage stamps of India, Jammu and Kashmir, Nepal, and Canada produced groundbreaking handbooks on which philatelists rely, even today.
[8] Smythies and Jim Corbett proposed that an area around Ramnagar be made a "National Park" to protect the threatened tigers and other living things.
Martin and Smythies also produced a pioneering study of the 1854 Four Annas, which won the 1932 Crawford Medal of the Royal Philatelic Society London.
Forgers held a special interest for Smythies: these include Jean de Sperati, Angelo Panelli and Philip Spiro.