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.
We cannot find an image of Dockwra so have used his postmarks instead.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
William Dockwra
Near this place William Dockwra founded the London Penny Post in 1680. Corpo...
Co-churchwarden of St Mary Abbots, Kensington in 1894.
Churchwarden, St Pancras Vestry in 1897. Andrew Behan has researched this man: Edward Cox was born in 1838 in St Pancras, London, a son of William James Cox and Mary Ann Cox. His father was a Coal...
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is the non-ministerial government department that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities.
Politician and broadcaster. Born Robert John Graham Boothby at 5 Ainslie Place, Edinburgh. Entered parliament in 1924 and held a couple of minor ministerial posts. He went on to become a well known...
Chairman of Governors of the Burdett-Coutts and Townshend Foundation School in 1924 and still alive and laying plaques in 1953. Nephew to William Burdett-Coutts.
