biography
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| lived:
| (1795–1879)
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| biography:
| Educator, inventor, and postal reformer, the originator of penny postage, born in Kidderminster, Hereford and Worcester, WC England, UK. He became a teacher, and helped to found the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1826). He invented a rotary printing press (1833). In his Post-office Reform: its Importance and Practicability (1837), he advocated a low and uniform rate of postage, to be prepaid by adhesive stamps, and in 1840 a uniform penny rate was introduced. He became secretary to the Post Office (1854), and was knighted in 1860. |
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