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 Massachusetts where he introduced the registration of births, marriages and deaths (hatches, matches and despatches). Published a report on the sanitary conditions of Massachusetts whose recom...
J.P., businessman and local politician active in West Ham. Member of the Electric Lighting and Tramways Committee, West Ham, 1905. Born Winchester. Spratt moved to London, initially living in Edgw...
Solicitor. Born Norfolk. 1891 finds him living in Buckhurst Hill. 1901, Churchwarden of St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe. Clement Ferrier Burton was born on 22 April 1852 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, the ...
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