Charlotte Waylen Tebay (21 September 1819 – 22 December 1901)"Death of Mrs. Tebay" in Stanley Gibbons Monthly Journal, Vol. XII, No. 139, 31 January 1902. was a British philatelist. She was one of the first women philatelists and helped to organise the first stamp exhibitions in London.Mackay, James. The Complete Guide to Stamps and Stamp Collecting. London: Hermes House, 2005, p. 75.
She was born in Devizes, Wiltshire,1891 England Census to Robert and Sarah Waylen. She was baptised in a Baptist church as a nonconformist.England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 In 1860, she married Dr. Thomas George Tebay. Like Adelaide Lucy Fenton, Tebay was one of the first members of the Royal Philatelic Society, London, being elected in April 1876, and many early meetings of the society were held at the Tebays' home"The Late Mrs Tebay" in The London Philatelist, Vol.11, No.121, January 1902, pp. 2–3. at 37 Belgrave Road in London.
In 1897, Tebay was one of the first collectors to exhibit the primitive Ugandan Cowrie stamps."Ugandan Cowrie Stamps" in The London Philatelist, Vol.6, No.68, August 1897, pp. 237–238.
She died on 22 December 1901, at the age of 82.
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Further reading "Mrs Charlotte Tebay: Interview" in The Philatelic Record, XXII, 221.