Isaac Nichols
(1770-1819)
Australian shipwright
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Isaac Nichols (1770–1819) was a convict on the Third Fleet who became a successful businessman and was appointed the first Postmaster of New South Wales in 1809. The mayhem that could occur when supply ships arrived, which was said to include unscrupulous people taking other people's mail and selling it back to them, made a more secure and orderly system a necessity. Isaac used his house in lower George St, the Rocks, as the post office, going to newly arrived ships to pick up the mail and then posting a list of recipients outside his house. Isaac is credited with starting the first central post office.
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29 July 1770 Calne, Wiltshire
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| Died |
8 November 1819 (aged 49)
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| Zodiac | Leo |
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