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Her Majesty's Mails
·
William Lewins
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The
Postmaster-General,
the
highest
controlling
authority
at
the
Post-Office
representing
the
Executive,
is
now
always
a
peer
of
the
realm,
a
member
of
the
Privy
Council,
and
generally,
though
not
necessarily,
a
Cabinet
Minister.
Of
course
he
changes
with
the
Government.
As
we
have
seen
in
the
origin
of
the
office,
he
holds
his
appointment
by
patent
granted
under
the
Great
Seal.
The
Postmaster-General
has
in
his
gift
all
the
postmasterships
in
England
and
Wales
where
the
salary
is
not
less
than
120l.
per
annum
(all
under
that
sum
being
in
the
gift
of
the
Treasury
Lords),
and
to
those
in
Ireland
and
Scotland
where
the
salary
is
100l.
and
upwards.
Besides
this
amount
of
patronage,
now
dispensed
to
officers
already
in
the
service,
he
has
the
power
of
nomination
to
all
vacancies
in
the
General
Post-Offices
of
London,
Edinburgh,
and
Dublin.[142]
The
following
noblemen
have
occupied
the
position
of
Postmaster-General
during
the
last
forty
years,
or
since
the
joint
Postmaster-Generalship
was
abolished
in
1823,[143]
viz.
Earl
of
Chichester
(1823),
Lord
Frederick
Montague
(1826),
Duke
of
Manchester
(1827),
Duke
of
Richmond
(1830),
appointed
Postmaster-General
of
Great
Britain
and
Ireland
the
year
after;
Marquis
of
Conyngham
(July,
1834),
Lord
Maryborough
(December,
1834),
Marquis
of
Conyngham
again
(May,
1835),
Earl
of
Lichfield
(June,
1835),
Viscount
Lowther
(September,
1841),
Earl
St.
Germains
(June,
1846),
Marquis
of
Clanricarde
(July,
1846).
Still
more
recently,
we
find
the
Earl
of
Hardwicke,
Viscount
Canning,
Duke
of
Argyll
(twice),
Lord
Colchester,
the
Earl
of
Elgin,
and
Lord
Stanley
of
Alderley.
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