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.
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William Dockwra
Near this place William Dockwra founded the London Penny Post in 1680. Corpo...
Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary and General Purpose Committee, St Pancras Vestry in the late 1800s.
Founded at a meeting in Almack's / Willis's Rooms, when 280 Whig, Liberal, former Peelite and radical MPs met to agree on a strategy to remove Lord Derby's Conservative government. The Guardian re...
Laura Maria Serrant, CBE FRCN is a British nurse and academic. She is currently (2025) Regional Head of Nursing for North East and Yorkshire at Health Education England and Professor of at Manchest...
Person, Education, Medicine, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Race Issues
Part of the UN, the IMO has its HQ in London (we do like our initials). Always based in London, it began as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organisation in Chancery Lane, moved to 22 ...
Philanthropist. He was a wealthy benefactor, particularly to Lewisham and Christ's Hospital, where he had attended school. In 1840 he built and endowed the almshouses in Lewisham which bear his nam...
Clerk for the managers that ran the 1873-75 changes at Aske’s Hospital. May be "Jnd.", either way we can't think what it might stand for.
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Andrew Joseph Bailey was born on 20 April 1972 in Birmingham, West Midlands, a son of Vincent H. Bailey an...
In our photo Keane's is the plaque to the left (east), Treloar to the right, just above the cyclist's head. The cyclist may look as if he...
An Assistant Electrician on the RMS Titanic. A full résumé of his life can be found on the Encyclopedia Titanica website. He is also commemorated on the Engineers Memorial, Andrews East Park, Above...
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