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    Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a Cabinet ministerial position in HM Government. Aside from maintaining the postal system, the Telegraph...
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  • authorised by the Postmaster General. In the United Kingdom, the office of Postmaster General was abolished in 1969. It was replaced by the Minister of Posts...
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    female postmaster in Sweden Benjamin F. Stapleton, mayor of Denver Postmaster General Postmaster General of the United Kingdom United States Postmaster General...
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    The Postmaster General for Scotland, based in Edinburgh, was responsible for the postal service in the Kingdom of Scotland from approximately 1616 until...
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    was a Postmaster General of England and inventor of the first postmark used on mail. He was the second son of Sir Thomas Bishopp, 1st Baronet of Parham...
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  • The Postmaster General for the Province of Canada was a member of the Executive Council for the Province of Canada responsible for the operation of the...
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  • Events from the year 2024 in the United Kingdom. This year is noted for a landslide general election victory for the Labour Party under Keir Starmer. Monarch...
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    The General Post Office (GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the...
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  • predecessor in the post of Postmaster-General (then the minister with responsibility for broadcasting), Short was responsible for introducing the bill which...
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  • The Assistant Postmaster General is a defunct junior ministerial position in the United Kingdom Government. The title of Postmaster General was abolished...
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    Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of Guinea...
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    Secretary of State (England) Secretary of State for the Northern Department List of first lords of the Admiralty Postmaster General of the United Kingdom Weber...
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    and later as Postmaster General of the United Kingdom. He brokered the so-called Lord Eliot Convention in Spain, which aimed to end the indiscriminate...
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    becoming joint Postmaster-General in 1715. Making the most of his opportunities in all these capacities, he amassed a great deal of money. Craggs also...
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    General of the United Kingdom. Legislation in 1831 had amalgamated the earlier offices of Postmaster General of Great Britain and Postmasters General of Ireland...
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    Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden (category Postmasters general of the United Kingdom)
    1783) was a British diplomat at The Hague and then joint Postmaster General. He was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father Thomas Trevor, 1st...
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    Brian Tuke (category Clerks of the Parliaments)
    was the secretary of Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey. He served as the first Governor of the King's Posts (later the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom)...
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    him to lead the Ultras into joining Earl Grey's reforming Whig government in 1830 (Lang, 1999). He served under Grey as Postmaster General between 1830...
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    The following is a list of ministerial offices in the Government of the United Kingdom. The highest ranking ministers are Cabinet ministers or also attend...
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    Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton (category Postmasters general of the United Kingdom)
    served as Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies. In 1905, he earned his first Cabinet post, that of Postmaster-General. In this capacity he introduced...
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    The 1964 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 15 October 1964. It resulted in the Conservatives, led by incumbent Prime Minister Alec...
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    William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil (category Postmasters general of the United Kingdom)
    Minister of Food (1939–1940), Postmaster General (1940–1943), and Minister of Town and Country Planning (1943–1945). Morrison was elevated to the speakership...
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    the Earl of Clanricarde from 1808 until 1825, was a British Whig politician who served as British Ambassador to Russia (1838–40), Postmaster General (1846–52)...
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    daughter of Capt. Lord Montagu Bertie. He succeeded in the earldom on the death of his father in 1774. In 1789 Westmorland was appointed Joint Postmaster General...
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    John Stonehouse (category Postmasters general of the United Kingdom)
    Wilson. He later served as Postmaster General until the position was abolished by the Post Office Act 1969. As Minister of Posts and Telecommunications...
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    William Mitchell-Thomson, 1st Baron Selsdon (category Postmasters general of the United Kingdom)
    served as British Postmaster-General from 1924 till 1929. Mitchell-Thomson was born at number 7 Carlton Terrace, Edinburgh, the son of Mitchell Mitchell-Thomson...
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    he entered the cabinet as Postmaster General, a post he held until the government fell in December 1905. He lost his seat in the 1906 general election....
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    Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair (category Postmasters general of the United Kingdom)
    was Postmaster-General from 1873 to 1874. Playfair was born at Chunar, Bengal, the son of George Playfair (1781–1845), the chief inspector-general of hospitals...
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    Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr (category Postmasters general of the United Kingdom)
    was appointed Postmaster General, and as such, was in charge at the time of the Eastcastle Street robbery, before leaving office for the final time in...
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  • Irish and Scottish Post Offices united under the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom, 31 years after the Act of Union 1839 5 December - Uniform Fourpenny...
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