politician
Thomas Pownall.
British colonial official, Governor of Massachusetts Bay Province (1722-1805)
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About Thomas Pownall
Thomas Pownall was a British colonial administrator and politician. He was governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1757 to 1760, and afterwards sat in the House of Commons from 1767 to 1780. He travelled widely in British North America prior to the American Revolutionary War, opposed Parliamentary attempts to tax the colonies, and was a minority advocate of colonial positions until the Revolution.
Everything about Thomas Pownall →- Occupation
- politician, governor
- Position held
- Governor of the province of Massachusetts Bay, Lieutenant Governor of Colonial New Jersey, member of the 13th Parliament of Great Britain, member of the 14th Parliament of Great Britain
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- September 4, 1722
- Died
- February 25, 1805, February 5, 1805