George Chetwynd (1824 – 3 December 1882)[1] was the Receiver and Accountant General of the British Post Office.
[2] In 1860, when working as a junior bookkeeper in the Money Order Office of the General Post Office, Chetwynd proposed the establishment of a network of Post Office Savings Banks 'having for its object the security of money deposited at Savings Banks, and the encouragement of the working classes in provident habits'.
[3] The Post Office Savings Bank was established in the UK the following year, with Chetwynd appointed to be its Controller.
[4] In 1874 (by which time he had been promoted to the senior office of Receiver and Accountant General), Chetwynd conceived of the postal order as a cheaper alternative to the more cumbersome money order (though it was 1 January 1881 before the first "post office notes" finally went on sale).
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