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Thomas Witherings (died 28 September 1651) was an English merchant and postal administrator who established the Royal Mail public letter service. He was a politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1640.

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Thomas Witherings

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Puritan. Witherings was admitted to the Worshipful Company of Mercers on 16 February 1625. In 1632, Charles I approved the appointment of Witherings as the...

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General Post Office

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by Witherings as part of his administration of the foreign posts, and he himself had proposed its extension to the rest of the realm). Witherings was...

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Withering away of the state

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p. 736. ISBN 9781849724784. OCLC 857590425. Kurian, George Thomas, ed. (2011). "Withering Away of the State". The Encyclopedia of Political Science. Washington...

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Royal Mail

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recipient. The monopoly was farmed out to Thomas Witherings. In the 1640s, Parliament removed the monopoly from Witherings and during the Civil War and First...

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Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain

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of the Postes", while Elizabeth I appointed Thomas Randolph as "Chief Postmaster". Under Thomas Witherings, chief postmaster under Charles I, the Royal...

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Emerson Park

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held by the Naunton family and then sold to the postal administrator Thomas Witherings around 1646. The Nelmes mansion and about three acres of grounds,...

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History of the British Army postal service

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Armada. In 1632, Charles I appointed Thomas Witherings as the Postmaster of foreign mails. Three years later Witherings proposed to Charles's Council to "settle...

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Post Office Packet Service

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beyond. This messenger service was far from reliable, so in the 1630s Thomas Witherings set about establishing a regular Dover-Calais packet service and entered...

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Lancelot Hogben

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Lancelot Thomas Hogben FRS FRSE (9 December 1895 – 22 August 1975) was a British experimental zoologist and medical statistician. He developed the African...

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Thomas Pollock Anshutz

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Thomas Pollock Anshutz (October 5, 1851 – June 16, 1912) was an American painter and teacher. Known for his portraiture and genre scenes, Anshutz was a...

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William Carnaby

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John Francklyn Sir Francis Seymour Preceded by Sir Philip Mainwaring Thomas Witherings Member of Parliament for Morpeth 1640–1642 With: John Fenwick Succeeded by...

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Cursing of the fig tree

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different story appears in the non-canonical, Gnostic Infancy Gospel of Thomas, but attributes a similar quotation to Jesus: "behold, now also thou shalt...

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Battle of Bunker Hill

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muskets, and enjoyed a modicum of cover from return fire. Under this withering fire, the light companies melted away and retreated, some as far as their...

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List of MPs elected to the English parliament in April 1640

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of England, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 to the year 1803. London: Thomas Hansard. 1808. Nalson, John (1682). An Impartial Collection of the Great...

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Tom Shales

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Thomas William Shales (November 3, 1944 – January 13, 2024) was an American writer and television critic. He was a television critic for The Washington...

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Jessica Biel

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... is capable of rejoinders that thoroughly undercut her opponent's withering criticism." Biel also performed two songs on the film's soundtrack, "Mad...

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Member states of NATO

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January 2024. Mortimer, Caroline (19 March 2017). "Ex-US ambassador in withering criticism of Trump on Nato". The Independent. Archived from the original...

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George III

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Butterfield rejected the arguments of his Victorian predecessors with withering disdain: "Erskine May must be a good example of the way in which an historian...

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Thomas Krens

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Thomas Krens (born December 26, 1946) is the former director and Senior Advisor for International Affairs of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New...

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Passionflix

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Royally Screwed by Emma Chase The Air He Breathes by Brittainy C. Cherry Withering Hope by Layla Hagen A Man's Promise and A Lover's Vow by Brenda Jackson...

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