The Rowland Hill Fund
March 5th, 2010 admin
The following blog was written for us by Mary Jeffery, Manager of the Rowland Hill Fund. The Rowland Hill Fund is a registered charity founded in 1882 as a memorial to the great postal reformer and founder of the modern postal service Sir Rowland Hill, who retired as Secretary to the Post Office in 1864. Sir Rowland Hill Rowland Hill adapted the postal system of the 1830s from one which was slow and inadequate to…
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