Merchant who along with his partner Robert Murray created the first Penny Post in London in 1680. He was also an independent slave trader who attempted to break the monopoly that the Royal African Company held in the trade.
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William Dockwra
Near this place William Dockwra founded the London Penny Post in 1680. Corpo...
Born Yorkshire. Occupied 69 Meard Street in 1750. Died Dublin.
Created as New Mornington it was renamed on 19 January 1894 as the Shire of Mornington.
Secretary of the Stratford Co-operative and Industrial Society in 1919.
Already a naval lieutenant, he, with his two brothers, supported Cromwell and served as a colonel in the new Model Army. MP for Minehead. Died Dover and was buried Westminster Abbey, where there is...
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