Wilmot Corfield

William Wilmot Corfield (1859 - 27 October 1919)[1] was a British philatelist who was an important figure in Anglo-Indian philately.

[2] Corfield was born in Birmingham in 1859 and educated at King Edward's School.

He was also Curator of the Indian National Stamp Collection at Victoria Museum, Calcutta.

While in India, Corfield wrote topical verses under the pen name Dâk dicta which appeared in the Indian press, Dak being the Hindi equivalent of "post office".

He wrote the obituary of noted Indian philatelic specialist Sir David Parkes Masson in The London Philatelist.

Wilmot Corfield as pictured in The Philatelic Record , 1902.
The cover of the first volume of Dâk Dicta.