Devisor of the Postal system, inventor and teacher (1795–1879)
This article is about the postal reformer. For other people named Rowland Hill, see Rowland Hill (disambiguation).
Sir
Rowland Hill
KCB FRS
Born
(1795-12-03)3 December 1795
Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England
Died
27 August 1879(1879-08-27) (aged 83)
Hampstead, London, England
Resting place
Westminster Abbey
Occupation(s)
Schoolteacher, social reformer, postal administrator
Known for
Uniform Penny Post
Awards
Albert Medal (1864)
Signature
Sir Rowland Hill, KCB, FRS (3 December 1795 – 27 August 1879) was an English teacher, inventor and social reformer.[1] He campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, based on the concept of Uniform Penny Post and his solution of pre-payment, facilitating the safe, speedy and cheap transfer of letters. Hill later served as a government postal official, and he is usually credited with originating the basic concepts of the modern postal service, including the invention of the postage stamp.
Hill made the case that if letters were cheaper to send, people, including the poorer classes, would send more of them, thus eventually profits would go up.[2] Proposing an adhesive stamp to indicate pre-payment of postage – with the first being the Penny Black – in 1840, the first year of Penny Post, the number of letters sent in the UK more than doubled.[2] Within 10 years, it had doubled again. Within three years postage stamps were introduced in Switzerland and Brazil, a little later in the US, and by 1860, they were used in 90 countries.[2]
^* Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hill, Sir Rowland" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 465–466.
^ abc"The Penny Post revolutionary who transformed how we send letters". BBC. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
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