He oversaw the country's first significant nationalization and in 1874 he was managing a turnover of a million pounds per annum passing through 3,600 different offices.
Scudamore explained to William Ewart Gladstone as Chancellor of the Exchequer the proposed machinery, and had support and obtained authorization from parliament in 1861.
[1] In 1865 Scudamore drew up a report on the advisability of the state acquiring the telegraphs, which were then in the hands of a few private companies, on lines suggested by Frederick Ebenezer Baines.
By 1874 he had overseen the country's first significant nationalization, he was managing a turnover of a million pounds per annum passing through 3,600 different offices.
[4] The distinguished British author Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), was employed in the Post Office from 1859 until 1867, when he resigned to devote all his energy to his writing.
In The Way We Live Now, the planned elopement of Marie Melmotte is frustrated when she is intercepted by detectives instructed by a telegram sent by her father:[6] Scudamore married in 1851 Jane, daughter of James Sherwin, surgeon, of Greenwich, and left children.