Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago Postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Trinidad and Tobago. Trinidad and Tobago lies northeast of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles. Trinidad and Tobago was a Spanish colony from the times of Christopher Columbus to 1802, when it was ceded to Britain. The country obtained independence in 1962. The first stamps of Trinidad were the famous Lady McLeod, a private local post, stamps of 1847. The first definitives for Trinidad were issued in 1851. Tobago used stamps of Trinidad from 1860. Stamps
Philip John Miles his wife Sarah Berrow. His elder brother William died in 1790, and he inherited from his financier father in 1803. Miles was a partner in Miles Bank of Bristol, and later Miles, Harford & Co, which eventually became part of NatWest. He had Leigh Court at Abbots Leigh rebuilt, 1814–8. He sat three times as a Member of Parliament, for from 1826, for from 1829, and for from 1835. Under the Slave Compensation Act 1837 he received money from properties in Jamaica and Trinidad. Miles died on 24 March 1845. Miles married: From the first marriage there was one son