- John Leech
John Leech (born 11 April 1971) is a British politician and the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Manchester Withington. He is a member of the Transport Select Committee and was appointed a Shadow Transport Spokesperson in 2006. - Charles Hendry
Charles Hendry (born May 6, 1959) is a British politician and the Conservative Member of Parliament for Wealden. In September 2006, Charles became a Patron of the Tory Reform Group. The son of a stockbroker, Hendry was educated at Rugby School, Warwickshire and the University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a Bachelor of Commerce degree in business studies in 1981. He was the president of the Edinburgh University Conservative Association in 1979. - Simon Gray
Simon Gray studied at Birmingham Conservatoire, initially under Andrew Downes and then principally under John Mayer. Under the influence of the latter, he developed a keen interest in all forms of musical fusions, working as the Musical Director of the Conservatoire's Indo Jazz Fusions ensemble for a time and coaching the Folk music ensemble there. He also served as the Director of the Conservatoire's community music programme sponsored by the Post Office, … - Paul Holmes
Paul Robert Holmes (born 16 January 1957, Sheffield) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Liberal Democrat parliamentary party chairman and Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, previously held by Tony Benn, and was first elected in 2001being reelected with an increased majority in 2005. Before becoming an MP, Holmes was a history teacher for 22 years. His election as chairman of the parliamentary party in 2005 was a surprise to many, … - Peter Peacock
Peter Peacock (born 27 May 1952) has been a Labour regional list Member of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands since 1999. Peacock was appointed a deputy minister when first elected in 1999, and promoted to Minister for Education and Young People in the Scottish Executive after the 2003 election. He resigned from his Government post in November 2006 due to ill health. Immediately prior to coming to Parliament, Peacock was the Convener of Highland Council, … - Robert Hunter
Sir Robert Hunter (born in 1844 at Camberwell, London, England-November, 1913) was a solicitor, civil servant and co-founder of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Hunter's mother came from a missionary family and his father had turned a successful career as a master mariner into his own mercantile business in London. When Hunter was 17, the family left London for Dorking, … - John McLean
John McLean (March 11, 1785 - April 4, 1861) was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courts. McLean was born in Morris County, New Jersey, the son of Fergus McLean and Sophia Blackford. After living in a succession of frontier towns, Morgantown, Virginia; Nicholasville, Kentucky; and Maysville, Kentucky; in 1797 his family settled in Ridgeville, Warren County, … - Nick Bourne
Nicholas Henry Bourne, commonly known as Nick Bourne, (born 1952) is the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly for Wales and a Conservative Assembly Member for Mid and West Wales. His interests include visiting museums and art galleries, travelling, walking and sport. - Ralph Allen
Ralph Allen (1693 - June 29, 1764) was baptised at St Columb Major, Cornwall on July 24 1693. As a teenager he worked at the Post Office. He moved to Bath in 1710 where he became a post office clerk in Bath, and at the age of 19, in 1712, became the Post Master of Bath. At the age of 27 Allen took control of the Cross and Bye Posts under a seven year contract to the General Post Office. Although he had no official title, at the end of this period, had not made a profit, … - Spencer Davis
Spencer David Nelson Davis (born 17 July, 1939 in South Wales, UK) is a musician and multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of the 1960s rock band, the Spencer Davis Group. Davis was greatly influenced by his uncle Herman's mandolin playing, and first learned the harmonica at the age of six. He moved to London when he was sixteen and began working in the Civil Service as a clerical officer in the Post Office Savings Bank. Some of his early influences were Big Bill Broonzy, … - Gail E. Haley
Gail E. Haley (1939-) is an American author an illustrator. She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. She married mathematician Joseph A. Haley in 1959. Her first book, "My Kingdom for a Dragon" was published in 1962. She won the Caldecott Medal in 1970 for her retelling of African folktale "A Story a Story". - Mytchett
Mytchett is a small village in Surrey approximately 35 miles south west of London. The village is approximately 2 miles long, but is constrained to the north by the South Western Main Line and to the east by the Basingstoke Canal and west by the River Blackwater, meaning the village is only around 3/4 of a mile wide. The census area "Mytchett and Deepcut" has a population of 6,179. - Charles Washington
Charles Washington was the youngest full brother of United States President George Washington. He was a son of Augustine Washington and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington. Charles was born at Hunting Creek in Stafford County (now Fairfax County) on May 2, 1738. He arrived in present Jefferson County, West Virginia between April and October 1780 and founded Charles Town. - Kenneth Anderson
Kenneth Anderson (1910-1974) was an Indian writer and hunter who wrote many books about his adventures in the jungles of South India. He is considered the Jim Corbett of the south due to his reputation in the first half of the 20th century as a killer of maneaters, and the stories he mentions in his book are from many places across South India, many far from his home town of Bangalore. Kenneth Anderson hailed from a Scottish family settled in India for six generations. - Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman, FRSC (17 November 1861 - 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poet. He was born at Morpeth, Ontario, a village near Chatham. Lampman attended Trinity College (now part of the University of Toronto). In 1883, after a brief and unsuccessful attempt teaching high school in Orangeville, Ontario, Lampman took an appointment as a low-paid clerk in the Post Office Department, Ottawa, a position he held for the rest of his life. - Ammi B. Young
Ammi Burnham Young (June 19, 1798 - March 14, 1874) was an important 19th century American architect whose commissions transitioned from the Greek Revival to the Neo-Renaissance styles. Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, he showed a talent for designing monumental buildings. His Second Vermont State House brought him fame and success, which eventually led him to become the first Supervising Architect of the U.S. Treasury Department. - Dixie Dean
William Ralph Dean (January 22, 1907 - March 1, 1980), popularly known as Dixie Dean, was an English football player and the most prolific goal-scorer in English football history, best known for his legendary exploits at Everton. - Mary Katherine Goddard
Mary Katherine Goddard (June 16, 1738 - August 12, 1816) was an early American publisher and the first American postmistress. She was the first to print the Declaration of Independence with the names of the signatories. Her brother William Goddard had been the publisher and printer of a revolutionary journal called "The Maryland Journal". Ms. - Jean-Claude Parrot
Jean-Claude Parrot was National President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers for fifteen years and its chief negotiator for eighteen. Early in his career, CUPW had reached a low point with Canadians when, at the outset of a 42-day postal strike, Parrot's presidential predecessor Joe Davidson responded to a reporter's hypothetical question by uttering "to hell with the public." Capitalizing on the lack of support for the postal worker union, … - James Redmond
Sir James Redmond was one of the pioneers of modern public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. He spent the greater part of his career with the Engineering Department of the BBC rising all the way through the ranks from vision mixer to Director of Engineering and was involved in overseeing most of the technical developments which made modern TV broadcasting possible. He was one of the engineers responsible for the successful development of live outside broadcasting, … - Charles Kemble
Charles Kemble (November 25, 1775 - November 12, 1854) was a British actor, the youngest son of Roger Kemble. A younger brother of John Philip Kemble, Stephen Kemble and Sarah Siddons, he was born at Brecon, South Wales. Like John Philip, he was educated at Douai. After returning to England in 1792, he obtained a job in the post office, but soon resigned to go on the stage, making his first recorded appearance at Sheffield as Orlando in "As You Like It" in that year. - Homer Plessy
Homer Plessy was the American plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in "Plessy v. Ferguson". Arrested, tried and convicted of a violation of Louisiana's racial segregation laws--his great-grandmother was black--he appealed to the Supreme Court. The resulting "separate-but-equal" decision against him had wide consequences for the U.S. civil rights for the next half century. Plessy was born Homère Patrice Plessy in New Orleans, Louisiana, on St. - Larry Laprise
Larry LaPrise (Roland Lawrence LaPrise, born: 11 November 1912 in Detroit, Michigan, died: 4 April 1996 in Gooding, Idaho) holds the U.S. copyright for the song "Hokey Pokey". LaPrise reportedly wrote the song in the late 1940s for the après-ski crowd at a club in Sun Valley, Idaho. The song was first recorded by his group the Ram Trio (with Charles Macak and Tafit Baker) in 1949. They were awarded U.S. copyright in 1950. After the group broke up in the 1960s, … - Chris Philp
Chris Philp was the Chairman of the Bow Group in 2004-5, a British centre-right think tank. Philp was educated at St Olave's Grammar School and Oxford University, where he studied physics and was editor of "Cherwell". After university Philp worked at McKinsey & Company. He then left to start Blueheath, a distribution company, and Clearstone, a HGV driver training company. - John Thurloe
John Thurloe (June 1616- 21 February 1668) was a secretary to the council of state in Protectorate England and spymaster for Oliver Cromwell. Thurloe was born in Essex in 1616 and was baptised on June 12. His father was Thomas Thurloe, rector of Abbot's Roding. He was trained as a lawyer in Lincoln's Inn. He was first in the service of Oliver St. John, and, in January 1645, became a secretary to the parliamentary commissioners at Uxbridge. - Nellie Brimberry
Nellie Brimberry of Albany, Georgia, became the first Postmistress of a major United States Post Office in 1910. In 1911 she inaugurated the first airmail flight in the U.S. and struck the first airmail stamp. This preceded the first transcontinental airmail flight by nine years. She played a significant role in the agricultural history of the South when she secured for pecan growers the privilege of sealing their product in packages to be distributed by mail. - George Chetwynd
George Chetwynd was the Receiver and Accountant General of the Post Office. He conceived of the Postal Order in 1881 - Nedra Volz
Nedra Volz (June 18, 1908 - January 20, 2003) was an American actress born in Montrose, Iowa. Born Nedra Gordonier, she began her career in the family tent show, and appeared in vaudeville as a toddler (called "Baby Nedra"). She ended up in the 1970s as a well-recognized supporting actress primarily on television and also in feature films. She often played grandmothers or feisty little old ladies. - Kristen Nygaard
Kristen Nygaard (August 27, 1926 - August 10, 2002) was a Norwegian mathematician, computer programming language pioneer and politician. He was born in Oslo and died of a heart attack in 2002. - Joseph Hinton
Joseph Hinton, is the individual the community of Hintonburg, Ontario, now part of Ottawa, is named after. A shopkeeper and civic official in Richmond, Ontario, Hinton came to live with his son Robert in present-day Hintonburg sometime after 1867. He died in 1884 but his contribution to the community -- which included securing a post office and the Nepean township hall -- was recognized in the naming of the village of Hintonburg, now part of Ottawa, Ontario. - Ray Bishop
Raymond John Bishop (born November 24, 1955 in Hengoed, Glamorgan) is a former Welsh professional footballer. Ray Bishop, a forward, began his football career with Bargoed Youth Club, joining Welsh League side Tredomen at the age of 18. He moved on to Ton Pentre before joining Southern League side Cheltenham Town, while working as a Post Office engineer. He had a two month spell on trial with Brighton & Hove Albion, then managed by Alan Mullery, … - Spencer Walpole
Sir Spencer Walpole (February 6, 1830 - July 7, 1907) was an English historian and civil servant. He came of the younger branch of the family of the famous Whig prime minister, Robert Walpole, being descended from his brother, the 1st Lord Walpole of Wolterton. He was the son of the latter's great-grandson, the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole (1807-1898), three times home secretary under Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, … - Jean McKenzie
Jean Robertson McKenzie, CBE (19 January 1901 - 1 or 2 July 1964) was a New Zealand diplomat. She was the first woman to head a New Zealand diplomatic post. Born in Edendale, Southland, and originally named Jane, McKenzie attended Edendale School and Southland Technical College. She worked for a time as a secretary and administrator for the Post Office in Invercargill, and later for the Public Works Department. - Yoshida Tetsuro
Yoshida Tetsuro was a Japanese architect. He graduated from Tokyo University and entered the Ministry of Communications in 1919. He designed many Japanese post offices, telegraph offices, and related buildings in Japan. He introduced Eastern architecture to the west, while incorporating Western architecture in his own designs, including architecture from Scandinavia, Germany, and the United States. - Benjamin Satchwell
Benjamin Satchwell (1732-1809) was one of the founding fathers of Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, UK. Satchwell's cottage was found in the old town to the south of the River Leam. He was the village's first postmaster, using his cottage as the Post Office, and a shoemaker. In 1777 he helped set up The Foundation of Hospitality, a savings scheme which helped the poorer people of the village get medical attention. - Stuart Sutherland
Norman Stuart Sutherland (26 March 1927 - 8 November 1998), always known professionally as Stuart Sutherland, was a British psychologist and writer. Sutherland was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham before going to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology. He stayed at Oxford for his DPhil which he took in zoology under the supervision of J. Z. Young. - Mark Richard Hilburn
Mark Richard Hilburn was a disgruntled, recently fired postal employee who entered the Dana Point, California post office and shot two former coworkers, killing one on 1993-05-06. See Going postal for more information on this type of killing. - Wilhelm Miklas
Wilhelm Miklas (born October 15, 1872 - March 20, 1956) was an Austrian politician who served as the third President of Austria from 1928 until its annexation by Nazi Germany in the Anschluss 1938. Born as the son of a post office official in Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria, Wilhelm Miklas studied history and geography at the University of Vienna while serving in his role for the Christian Social Party. On December 10, 1928 he was elected the President of Austria, … - Auguste Henri Vildieu
Auguste Henri Vildieu was the French architectural adjutant in Hanoi while that city was an administrative center for the French colony of Indochina. Vildieu constructed several grand European-style buildings for the colonial government, … - Laurence Dunmore
Laurence Dunmore is a designer and film director whose first major collaboration was the British production of The Libertine in 2005. He is also a member of Ridley Scott Associates and has directed advertisements for Adidas, BMW and ING.
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