Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government. Aside from maintaining the postal system, the Telegraph Act of 1868 established the Postmaster General's right to exclusively maintain electric telegraphs. This would subsequently extend to telecommunications and broadcasting.
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Brian Tuke
Charles Cornwallis, 4th Baron Cornwallis
Everard Fawkener
Galfridus Walpole
Henry Bishop (postmaster general)
Henry Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret
James Craggs the Elder
John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich
John Perceval, 2nd Earl of Egmont
Philip Stanhope, 5th Earl of Chesterfield
Richard Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty
Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet, of Wotton
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (fifth creation)
Tony Benn
William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland
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Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom was a Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government. Aside from maintaining the postal system, the Telegraph Act of 1868 established the Postmaster General's right to exclusively maintain electric telegraphs. This would subsequently extend to telecommunications and broadcasting.
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Lista osób pełniących funkcję Postmaster-General
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The Postmaster General of the ...... and Skills prior to flotation.
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the United Kingdom
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(as Master of the Kings Post)
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Albert Illingworth 1916–1921
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Arms of Her Majesty's Government
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Postmaster General
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Master of the King's Post
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Postmaster General
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overseen by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
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Lista osób pełniących funkcję Postmaster-General
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The Postmaster General of the ...... mmunications and broadcasting.
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Poczmistrzowie generalni Wielkiej Brytanii
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Postmaster General of the United Kingdom
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