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  Thomas Pownall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Pownall (1722 – February 25, 1805), British colonial statesman and soldier, was born at Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire, England.
He entered the office of the lord's commissioners of trade and plantations, of which his brother John was then secretary; and in 1753 he went to America as private secretary to Sir Danvers Osborn, just appointed governor of New York.
For an extended account of Pownall's career and a bibliography of his publications see Thomas Pownall, M.P., F.R.S. (London, 1908), by Charles AW Pownall, a distant kinsman, who attempts to prove that Pownall was the author behind the scenes of the Letters of Junius and that Francis was his subordinate.
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 AllRefer.com - Thomas Pownall (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Thomas Pownall[pou´nul] Pronunciation Key, 1722–1805, English colonial governor in North America.
Following Osborn's suicide after their arrival, Pownall aided the English in their attempt to expel the French from North America, entered into a study of colonial administration and defense, and was lieutenant governor of New Jersey.
He was appointed (1757) governor of Massachusetts, where he vigorously pressed the last of the French and Indian Wars, but was transferred (1759) to the governorship of South Carolina.
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 Thomas Pownall; Martin Marietta chief; 83 | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Thomas Gilmore Pownall, the savvy and hard-nosed executive who repelled a hostile takeover of Martin Marietta in the 1980s and guided the company's transformation into one of the country's leading defense electronics concerns, died June 24 of pneumonia at Manor Care Potomac in suburban Potomac, Md. He was 83.
Pownall, former chairman and chief executive of Martin Marietta, achieved corporate celebrity status in 1982 when he led the company's defense during a 33-day test of financial wills against the larger Bendix Corp. His strategy to gobble up the competition before it could consume Martin Marietta was christened "the Pac-Man defense" by Wall Street analysts.
Pownall's career covered several industries – in the paper-box business, as a salesman for a steel fabricator and for General Motors' Chevrolet division in Ohio – before he joined the Convair division of General Dynamics Corp. in San Diego in 1955.
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 Hutchinson's Comments
Thomas Pownall (1772-1805) enjoyed a long and successful career as an administrator in the Colonies for England, serving as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, governor of South Carolina, secretary to the governor of New York and lieutenant governor of New Jersey.
Thomas advocated making concessions to the colonists in hopes of avoiding bloodshed, but eventually turned and joined with Lord North's ministry, which was largely responsible for precipitating the Revolution by snubbing conciliation.
The other Pownall, John, was Thomas' elder brother who held the position of secretary of the board of trade and plantations, and later served as undersecretary of state for the American colonies and as commissioner of excise and customs.
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 Thomas G. Pownall, 83, Martin Marietta CEO - Obituary - The Washington Times, America's ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Gilmore Pownall, former chairman and chief executive officer of Martin Marietta Corp., died June 24 at ManorCare in Potomac.
Pownall was credited with the rapid eradication of the company's debt and reshaping of the conglomerate into the defense and aerospace firm that later became the merged Lockheed Martin Corp.
Pownall was chairman of a Washington Federal City Council task force on science and mathematics education, and was active in a variety of other educational and public service activities.
washingtontimes.com /obituary/20050628-101546-8904r.htm   (713 words)

  
 Tom Pownall, 83; former Martin Marietta executive | The San Diego Union-Tribune
Pownall oversaw development of two Viking spacecraft that were involved in the first exploration of Mars in 1976.
Pownall joined Klein, his neighbor in La Jolla, in working as an advance man in the successful presidential campaign of Dwight Eisenhower and his running mate, Richard Nixon.
Pownall was awarded the Theodore von Karman Award from the Air Force Association for his work on the Viking spacecraft project.
www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050629/news_1m29pownall.html   (516 words)

  
 Pownal, Vermont, New England, USA
Pownal was the first town Benning Wentworth granted after the French and Indian wars, during which he had not granted anything in what was to become Vermont.
Brothers John and Thomas Pownall are both listed in the charter and are thus unquestionably the source of the name: Wentworth left off the final l from both their names and that of the town in the charter.
Pownal was the site of Vermont's only racetrack, which at one time was nearly as controversial as one of the state's few witchcraft trials, which also happened in Pownal.
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 Thomas Pownall -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Thomas Pownall (1722 - February 25, 1805), (The people of Great Britain) British colonial (A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs) statesman and soldier, was born at Saltfleetby, (An agricultural county of eastern England on the North Sea) Lincolnshire, England.
He was educated at (Capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska) Lincoln and at (additional info and facts about Trinity College, Cambridge) Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1743.
He entered the office of the lord's commissioners of trade and plantations, of which his brother John was then secretary; and in 1753 he went to America as private secretary to Sir Danvers Osborn, just appointed governor of (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/Thomas_Pownall.htm   (301 words)

  
 Thomas Pownall
POWNALL, Thomas, statesman, born in Lincoln, England, in 1720; died in Bath, 25 February, 1805.
Thomas first came to this country in October, 1753, as private secretary to Sir Danvers Osborne, royal governor of New York.
Pownall was a member of the Society of antiquaries, and a fellow of the Royal society.
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 Thomas Bradshaw: Correspondence 1767-1770
Macleane to Thomas Bradshaw, 17 September 1767, enclosing an extract of a letter of Lieutenant Governor F. Fauquier to the Earl of Shelburne, 30 July 1767, announcing the death of Peter Randolph, Surveyor General of Customs of a district of which Virginia was a part.
Thomas Bradshaw to Richard Philps, 7 May 1768, concerning a memorial from the Commissioners of Customs in America dated 12 February 1768, reporting on the hostility to the revenue laws throughout America.
Thomas Bradshaw to General Cornwallis, Governor of Gibralter, 30 December 1768, to report to Treasury Board the arrival of all ship from America (English) and likewise the ships sailing to America with account of their cargo etc. Like letters to Governors of Madeira and Minorca.
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 Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands:
In 1758, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Pownall wrote that a fort at the Penobscot River was of utmost importance for the English in their war with the French.
Such a fort, wrote Pownall, would allow the English to possess "fine country" and "the finest bay in North America," as well as keep the French and their Indian allies well inland.
Though Fort Pownall did not fulfill its military purposes, its presence encouraged later English settlement of the Penobscot region and the fort served as a center for trade.
www.state.me.us /doc/parks/programs/history/fortpownall/history.htm   (435 words)

  
 Thomas Pownall, Colonial Governor, and Some of His Activities in the American Colonies - Sawtelle, William Otis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Boston, MA Massachusetts Historical Soc 1931 Reprint fair to poor This is a reprint of an article which first appeared in the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society for June 1930.
Thomas Pownall was thefirst Englishman of education and understanding to visit America for the express purpose of studying her economic and political conditions.
The author argues that during Pownall's seven years in the colonies (1753-1760), he was the pivotal point about which revolved civil and military affairs of gravest importance.
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 THOMAS POWNALL - LoveToKnow Article on THOMAS POWNALL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Osborn committed suicide soon after reaching New York (Oct. 6), but Pownall remained in America, devoting himself to studying the condition of the American colonies.
At the Albany Congress, in 1754, he met Benjamin.
For an extended account of Pownalls career and a bibliography of his publications see Thomas Pownall, M.P., F.R.S. (London, 1908), by Charles A. Pownall, a distant ~kinsman, who attempts to prove that Pownall was the author behind the scenes of the Letters of Junius and that Francis was his subordinate.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POWNALL_THOMAS.htm   (338 words)

  
 Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands:
In 1759, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Pownall sought to plug the mouths of Maine's key rivers so as to keep the French and Indians well inland.
The following year, Pownall led a group of 400 men who established and built a fort here, naming it after the governor.
The houses of the officers were situated between the fort and the bank of the river.
www.state.me.us /doc/parks/programs/history/fortpownall/pownall.htm   (401 words)

  
 A look at Dylan Thomas
Wyn Davies and Pownall met as fellow actors at the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake in 1980.
It was around the time when, Pownall says, “another person of renown, Powys Thomas, an actor/teacher, no relation to Dylan Thomas, had said to me that every person has a one-man show in him, and suggested mine was Dylan Thomas.
Neither man (nor I) ever saw Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) in person – “I wasn’t born when he was alive,” says Wys Davies – but Pownall drew upon the first-hand recollections of Powys Thomas and others, including Caitlin, who did know the poet.
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 Imprint 1979
Thomas Pownall (1722-1805) was the British topographical draftsman and political figure responsible for a series of drawings engraved and published in London in 1761.
The appendixes include lists of the prints published in 1761, of other views by Pownall and Sandby, and of the contents of the 1768 publication.
Although Thomas Doughty (1793-1856) is recognized as a painter of landscapes, his work as a printmaker is not well nown.
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 An antiquarian romance endeavouring to mark a line by which the most ancient people and the processions of the earliest ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Pownall (1722-1805) was the colonial governor of Massachusetts who "deserves more than any other Englishman of his time to be called a student of colonial administration" (DAB), and was a lifelong friend of Benjamin Franklin.
After failing to effect a peace between Britain and her colonies in Parliament in 1780, he retired to private life.
A prolific author, Pownall wrote on a number of subjects, the most famous of which was his Administration of the Colonies, 1764 etc. His Antiquarian Romance is actually the second part of his "Treatise on the Study of Antiquities as the Commentary to Historical Learning" and was written in 1782 and not published until 1795.
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 BFH: Chapter VIII: The Children of Thomas Pownall Boultbee and Caroline Frances Lawrence and Their Descendants
Thomas Francis born 1850, married [1876 Ed.] Marian Gertrude daughter of Frederick Padwick of West Thorney, Sussex.
[Thomas Francis was educated at a private school at Holbrook, Suffolk and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.
Lucy Marian died in 1929 and Thomas married secondly, in 1942, Mildred Bridget St. Alban.
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 De Queen Bee & De Queen Daily Citizen : Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Arthur was born on July 14, 1919 in Sevier County a son of the late Arthur Waldon Thomas and Ocie Farmer Thomas.
Thomas was the owner and founder of Thomas Engineering Company of North Little Rock.
Thomas was a member of numerous professional and engineering organizations including being a past President of the Consulting Engineer's Council of Arkansas.
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 POWNALL, THOMAS (1722—1805) - Online Information article about POWNALL, THOMAS (1722—1805)
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:
account of Pownall's career and a bibliography of his publications see Thomas Pownall, M.P., F.R.S. See also:
Charles A. End of Article: POWNALL, THOMAS (1722—1805)
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 Thomas Alva Edison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Named Thomas after a great uncle and Alva after a family friend, Thomas Alva Edison was called Al...
Thomas Alva Edison (11 de febrer de 1847 – 18 d'octubre de 1931 inventor i home de negocis dels Estats Units que va desenvolupar mols aparells importants.
The Inventions of Thomas Alva Edison: Father of the Light Bulb and the Motion Picture Camera (19th Century American Inve...
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 Sandy Hook Lighthouse
Englishman Thomas Pownall sailed into the harbor in 1755 and noted that: "The first land you discover in coming from the Sea is the high land of the Nave-sinks.
Pownall’s passage took place during good weather, but six years later a number of shipwrecks occurred on the treacherous, unseen sandbars and shoals surrounding Sandy Hook.
The text is by Thomas J. Hoffman, Park Historian.
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 Thomas G. Pownall
A former Navy officer, Pownall managed the construction of both Viking probes to Mars for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
During an attempt by William M. Agee of Bendix Corporation (a very large electronics firm) to buy Martin-Marietta (an aerospace firm) with a $1.5B hostile offer, Pownall's innovative response was to purchase Bendix with a $1.6B hostile offer.
Upon retirement, Pownall purchased a farm in Gordonsville, Virginia.
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 MHS | John Thomas Papers, 1693-1844 : Guide to the Microfilm Edition
The papers of John Thomas of Marshfield and Kingston, Mass., primarily dating from 1747-1760 and 1775-1776, contain materials related to his military service as a surgeon and officer in the French and Indian War and Revolution.
The papers of John Thomas (1724-1776), Kingston, Mass.
John Thomas, Castle William, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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 GERAINT WYN DAVIES FAN CLUB
An Evening with Dylan Thomas" at the Atlantic Theatre Festival in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Dylan Thomas and Shakespeare: In the Envy Of Some Greatness".
August 2001 saw the completion of Pownall's trilogy with "Stranger in Paradise".
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 Grandfather's Chair, by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Part II. X. Thomas Hutchinson Page 1
NOW THAT Grandfather had fought through the old French War, in which our chair made no very distinguished figure, he thought it high time to tell the children some of the more private history of that praiseworthy old piece of furniture.
He was a gay and fashionable English gentleman, who had spent much of his life in London, but had a considerable acquaintance with America.
If Governor Pownall had put it aboard the vessel in which he sailed for South Carolina, she would probably have lain wind-bound in Boston Harbor.
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 Osher Map Library: The Percy Map: William Douglass
Plan of the British Dominions of New England (London, [1753]) was the primary source for Thomas Jefferys's and John Green's Map of the Most Inhabited Part of New England (London, 1755).
General Map of the Middle British Colonies, in America (Philadelphia, 1755), and by Thomas Pownall for New England generally in his extension of Evans's map in 1776 (Pownall 1949 [1776/84], 9 and 18-20).
Pownall (1949 [1776/84], 9), former governor of Massachusetts Bay, wrote in 1775 that of "New England there has been no new Map published since that by Dr. Douglas[s]." Pownall clearly regarded the Jefferys-Green map, and all its subsequent derivatives, to have been only so many copies of the real source map.
www.usm.maine.edu /~maps/percy/douglass.html   (8237 words)

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