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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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