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...
Financier and horticulturalist. He was born on 2 January 1916 in Westminster the second of the four children of Lionel Nathan de Rothschild (1882-1942) and Marie Louise Eugénie de Rothschild née B...
Person, Armed Forces, Commerce, Gardens / Agriculture, Politics & Administration
Lord Mayor of London, 1911. Married Lillie Hartnoll in 1900.
Chairman of the Public Health and Sanitary Committee of Southwark Council in 1936.
Poplar councillor imprisoned during the 1921 rates protest.
First Chairman and Trustee of the Jubilee Market Traders Committee.
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