Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Thomas Neale (British:1641-1699) is renowned as being, amongst other things, the first postmaster general of the colonial United States.
Neale was an MP for 30 years, Master of the Mint and the Transfer Office, Groom Porter, gambler and entrepreneur. His projects ranged from the development of Seven Dials, Shadwell, East Smithfield and Tunbridge Wells, to land drainage, steel and papermaking, mining in Maryland and Virginia, raising shipwrecks, to developing a dice to check on cheating at gaming. He was also the author of numerous tracts on coinage and fund-raising, and was involved in the idea of a National Land Bank, the precursor of the Bank of England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Neale