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 as Denjiro Kotoku. Kotoku Shusui was his pen-name. Anarchist who translated anarchist writings into Japanese. Went to the USA in 1905-6. Executed for treason by the Japanese government.
Precentor and Chapter Treasurer of St Pauls in 1979.
Colonel Herbert Merton Jessel, 1st Baron Jessel, British soldier and Liberal Unionist, later Conservative politician. A member of the Westminster City Council, he served as the third Mayor of Westm...
Politician and trade unionist. Born Patrick Francis Curran in Glasgow, becoming known as Pete from an early age. He moved to London where he co-founded the the National Union of Gasworkers and Gene...
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