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News Release 21st August 2007POSTAGE STAMP FOR DR JOHNSONFollowing an approach by the committee set up to mark the tercentenary of Dr Samuel Johnson's birth in Lichfield on 18th September 1709, Michael Fabricant has enlisted the help of the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (the department formally known as the DTI), Rt Hon John Hutton MP, to ask the Royal Mail to issue a commemorative stamp in 2009. The Royal Mail is a wholly owned agency of the Government responsible to the Secretary of State. Michael Fabricant says: "There could be a series of stamps on the life of Dr Samuel Johnson each featuring one of his famous quotations or even just one stamp as part of a series commemorating the lives of a number of famous Englishmen whose anniversary all arise in 2009. We have already had a commemorative 50p coin marking the publication of Samuel Johnson's dictionary. What's good enough for the Royal Mint, should be good enough for the Royal Mail." A petition requesting the stamp will also be presented to John Hutton by Michael Fabricant later in the year. The issue of the stamp will form just part of the international celebrations marking the tercentenary throughout 2009. |
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