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About Lionel Copley
Sir Lionel Copley was the 1st Royal Governor of Maryland from 1692 through his death in 1693. He was the first official royal governor appointed by the British crown after the colony was removed from the proprietary control of the Calvert family during the Glorious Revolution. Copley engaged in a series of political struggles with the colonial assembly and the colonial secretary, Thomas Lawrence, in the year between his arrival and his death the next year.
Everything about Lionel Copley →- Position held
- Colonial Governor of Maryland
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1648
- Died
- 1693, September 12, 1693