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Townsend was the ghost writer of (former) Express owner Richard Desmond's autobiography, The Real Deal: The Autobiography of Britain's Most Controversial Media Mogul which was published in 2015. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Lynn Barber , in her Sunday Times review wrote that "the bulk of this memoir, about getting on, is a ripping yarn, fluently and wittily told".
Martin Townsend may refer to: Martin I. Townsend (1810–1903), lawyer and politician from New York Martin Townsend (journalist) (born 1960), editor of the Sunday Express
In 1836, Townsend was married to Louisa Bacon Kellogg (1812–1890), [6] a student at the Emma Willard School and the daughter of Oren Kellogg, Esq. [3] Together, they were the parents of a daughter: [7] Frances Kellogg Townsend (b. 1841), [6] who married professor Henry Bradford Nason (1842–1895), [7] [8] on September 7, 1864. [9]
Ted Proud was born on 18 April 1930. [1] His birth was registered in the Willesden district of London. Baxby was his mother's maiden name. [2]Proud married twice, firstly to Doreen J. Dolley in Bromley, Kent, in 1951, [3] and secondly to Karoline Ulrike Springer in Westminster, London, in 1966. [4]
Postal history has become a philatelic collecting speciality in its own right. Whereas traditional philately is concerned with the study of the stamps per se, including the technical aspects of stamp production and distribution, philatelic postal history refers to stamps as historical documents; similarly re postmarks, postcards, envelopes and the letters they contain.
Raymond Henry Weill (September 29, 1913 – April 21, 2003), of New Orleans, Louisiana, and his brother Roger G. Weill, were famous dealers of rare postage stamps, commonly referred to as the Weill brothers.
Central postal organization first came to the colonies in 1691 when Thomas Neale received a 21-year grant from the British Crown for a North American Postal Service. On 17 February 1691, a grant of letters patent from the joint sovereigns, William III and Mary II , empowered Thomas Neale,
As part of the Pan-American Exposition held in Buffalo in 1901 the United States Post Office Department issued a series of six commemorative stamps. Each stamp featured an ornate colored frame enclosing a black-and-white image of some means of (or adjunct to) modern rapid transportation.