Colonel John Lowther du Plat Taylor CB VD (1829 – 5 March 1904) was the founder of the Army Post Office Corps and the Post Office Rifles. Du Plat Taylor trained at The Royal Military College, Sandhurst but left in 1844 before he was commissioned. He then joined the Consular Service and was posted to China but was invalided back home after just 2 years. He joined the General Post Office in 1852 and worked as a Private Secretary to the Secretary of the Post Office, Sir Rowland Hill and then to Postmaster General.
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