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  Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney - InformationBlast
Townshend was elected to the House of Commons in 1754 as Whig member for Whitchurch and held that seat till his elevation to the peerage.
Townshend was a lord of the treasury in the first Rockingham ministry and continued in that office in the Pitt (now Lord Chatham) administration until December 1767, when he became a member of the Privy Council and joint Paymaster-General.
Sydney's papers are held by the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
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Townshend was elected to the House of Commons in 1754 as Whig member for Whitchurch and held that seat till his elevation tothe peerage.
Townshend was a lord of the treasury in the first Rockingham ministry and continued in that office in the Pitt(now Lord Chatham) administration until December 1767, when he became a member of the Privy Council and joint Paymaster-General.
Townshend remained in opposition until the end of Lord North 's ministry and spoke frequently in the House of Commons against the American war.Although he had no close party connection, he was inclined toward the Chathamites.
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Sydney can be divided into two geographical regions: the Cumberland Plain, a relatively flat or rolling region lying south and west of the harbour, and the Hornsby Plateau, an elevated (up to 200 m) plateau north of the harbour that is dissected by steep, forested valleys.
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 Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Townshend was a lord of the treasury in the first Rockingham ministry and continued in that office in the Pitt (now Lord Chatham) administration until December 1767, when he became a member of the Privy Council and joint-Paymaster of the Forces.
When the 2nd Earl of Shelburne became prime minister in July 1782, Townshend succeeded him as Secretary of State for the Home Department and became Leader of the House of Commons.
Following the loss of the North American colonies, Townshend, as Home Secretary in the Pitt Government, was given responsibility for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay.
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He suspected from this voyage that Tasmania was an island, and in 1798 he led an expedition to circumnavigate it and hence prove his theory.
For many years, plans of westward expansion from Sydney were thwarted by the Great Dividing Range, a large range of mountains which shadows the east coast from the Queensland-New South Wales border to the south coast.
Thomas Mitchell, the Surveyor-General of New South Wales, made a significant discovery in 1836.
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 Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Who is Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney? What is Thomas Townshend, 1st ...
He took the title Sydney to commemorate his descent from Robert Sydney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, who traced his descent from a Surrey yeoman, John de Sydenie.
The name Sydney derives from a village in Normandy called Saint-Denis, presumably named for St Denis, the patron saint of France.
Governor Phillip's well-known statement that "There will no slavery in a new country and hence no slaves" is an accurate reflection of Townshend's philosophy.
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 Lord Sydney - Thomas Townshend 1733-1800
In fact, Townshend was a very significant political figure during the 1780s, which was one of the most important decades in the history of the English-speaking people, with the emergence of the United States and the beginnings of Australia and Canada.
Townshend's choice of Phillip as Governor turned out to be inspired and Phillip's leadership was instrumental in ensuring the penal colony survived the early years of struggle and famine.
THOMAS TOWNSHEND (1733-1800) took his title of baron Sydney of Chislehurst (Kent) from the family of his great-great-grandmother, Lady Lucy Sydney, daughter of Robert Sydney, second Earl of Leicester (1627-1677), who traced his descent from a Surrey Yeoman, John de Sydenie, a farmer at Alfold, in the reign of Edward I.
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 Lord Sydney - Thomas Townshend 1733-1800
THOMAS TOWNSHEND, baron Sydney of Chiselhurst; one of his majesty's most honourable privy council, one of his majesty's principal secretaries of state, president of the commission for the control of the affairs of the East India company, one of the lords commissioners of trade and plantations, and a governor of the Charter House.
This nobleman is son of Thomas son of Charles second lord viscount Townshend.
C R E A T I O N. Baron Sydney of Chiselhurst in the county of Kent 6 March 1783.
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 Viscount Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Viscount Sydney is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain created in 1789, to Thomas Townshend, 1st Baron Sydney (the Barony having been created in 1783).
The Earldom, Viscounty and Barony all became extinct at the death of the first Earl.
John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney (1805-1890) (became Earl Sydney in 1874)
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He suspected from this voyage that Tasmania was an island, and in 1798 he led an expedition to circumnavigate it and hence prove his theory.
He returned to his homeland of England, but was soon sent back to Sydney with a much more ambitious task—to circumnavigate Australia.
Phillip named the settlement after Thomas Townshend, 1st Baron Sydney (Viscount Sydney from 1789), the Home Secretary.
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 Lord Sydney Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Following family tradition, Thomas Townshend graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, entered Parliament in 1754 as Whig member for Whitchurch, and retained that seat until he was elevated to the peerage in 1783.
He was a lord of the treasury in the first Rockingham ministry and continued in that office in the Chatham administration until December, 1767, when he became a member of the Privy Council and joint paymaster general.
Townshend remained in opposition until the end of the North ministry and spoke frequently in the House of Commons against the American war.
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The titles of Baron Sydney and Viscount Sydney were created in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1783 and 1789, respectively, for Thomas Townshend, a politician of the period for whom the Australian city of Sydney is named.
In 1874, the 3rd Viscount was created Earl Sydney, but all the titles became extinct upon his death in 1890.
John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney (1805-1890), created Earl Sydney in 1874
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Named after the township of Sydney which in turn was named after the British Home Secretary, Thomas Townshend Sydney, 1st Viscount (1733-1801).
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*Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1732-1800) *John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney (1764-1831) *John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney (1805-1890) (became Earl Sydney in 1874)
*John Robert Townshend, 1st Earl Sydney (1805-1890) See also: *Viscount Sydney of Sheppey (1689)
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This is a painting of the ship Prince of Wales from the First fleet, which transported convicts and settlers to Australia from Britain, between May 1787 and January 1778.
The fleet was commissioned by Thomas Townshend, Baron Sydney, and under the overall command of Capt. Arthur Phillip, and carried instructions to establish a penal colony at or near Botany Bay.
The navy ships carried the appointed officials and the marines who were expected to maintain order, while the transports carried between them some 750 souls, men and women, who were transported for varying periods, but for whom the voyage could hardly be anything but a one-way trip.
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 I42120: Thomas (1st Viscount Sydney) TOWNSHEND (24 Feb 1732 - 30 Jun 1800)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
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