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See also:POWNALL, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS (1722–1805) , See also:British colonial states-See also:man and soldier, was See also:born at Saltfleetby, See also:Lincolnshire, See also:England, in 1722. He was educated at See also:Lincoln and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated in 1743. He entered the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the lords commissioners of See also:trade and plantations, of which his See also:brother See also:John was then secretary; and in 1753 he went to See also:America as private secretary to See also:Sir See also:Danvers See also:Osborn, just appointed See also:governor of New See also:York. Osborn committed See also:suicide soon after reaching New York (Oct. 6), but Pownall remained in America, devoting himself to studying the See also:condition of the See also:American colonies. At the See also:Albany See also:Congress, in 1754, he met See also:Benjamin See also:Franklin, and a See also:life-See also:long friendship between the two resulted. In 1756 he returned to England, and presented to See also:Pitt a See also:plan for a See also:campaign against the See also:French in See also:Canada, to begin with the investment of See also:Quebec. In 1757 Pitt appointed him governor of See also:Massachusetts,' in which office he heartily supported Pitt's policy during the Seven Years' See also:War, and in 1758 encouraged the equipment of a force of 7000 men, to be recruited and armed in New England; but the French See also:power in America once broken, Pownall came more directly under the See also:influence of the lords of trade, and his unwillingness to carry out the repressive policies of that See also:body caused his See also:transfer to the governorship of See also:South Carolina in See also:February 176o. This office he held nominally for about a See also:year; but he never went to South Carolina, and in See also:June 1760 he returned to England. In 1762–1763 he was See also:commissary-See also:general of the British troops in See also:Germany. As member of See also:parliament for Tregony in 1768–1774 and for See also:Minehead in 1774–1780, he at first sided with the Whigs in opposing all plans to tax the American colonists, but he supported See also:North's See also:administration after the outbreak of the War of See also:Independence. He died at See also:Bath on the 25th of February 18o5. In 1764 he published (at first anonymously) his famous Administration of the Colonies (other See also:editions appeared in 1765, 1766, 1768 and 1774), in which he advocated a See also:union of all British possessions upon the basis of community of commercial interests.
For an extended See also:account of Pownall's career and a bibliography of his publications see Thomas Pownall, M.P., F.R.S. (See also:London, 1908), by See also:Charles A. W.
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