Concept    From 19/4/1661 

First postmarks in the world

Categories: Commerce

Inked date stamps were at first called 'Bishops marks' after their inventor, Henry Bishop, Postmaster General, 1660-1663.  The post office was receiving complaints about late arrival of the post.  Bishop claimed: 'a stamp is invented, that is putt upon every letter shewing the day of the moneth that every letter comes to this office, so that no letter Carryer may dare to detayne a letter from post to post; which, before, was usual.' As we now know, this did not actually solve the problem, just provided more evidence that the problem existed.

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First postmarks in the world

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General Letter Office

Near this spot the General Letter Office stood in Post House Yard, 1653 - 166...

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James Buckington Bevington

James Buckington Bevington

Of Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey, a successful leather manufacturers.  Father of Samuel Bourne.

Person, Commerce

1 memorial
Lieutenant Colonel Albert Victor Cowley

Lieutenant Colonel Albert Victor Cowley

Member of the Ealing District Council in 1899. Albert Victor Cowley was born in 1860, the third of the four children of Edward Spencer Dickin Cowley (1816-1893) and Selina Cowley née Lindfield (18...

Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
William Johnson & Co. Ltd
1 memorial