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Sir Rowland Hill KCB

Photograph at the Sir Rowland Hill KCB blue plaque

Sir Rowland Hill 1795-1879 Founder The World's First Uniform Postal Rate The Penny Post Lived in a Farmhouse now Horsehills Drive off Compton Road c1788-1802 Married Caroline Pearson St Peter's Church 1827

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