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  Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 of the Forces.
Sydney's papers are held by the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan.
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 Sydney, Nova Scotia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sydney suffered an economic decline for several decades in the later part of the 20th century as the local coal and steel industries underwent significant changes.
Sydney was founded by Col. Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres in 1785, and named in honour of Lord Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (also the Home Secretary in the British cabinet at the time).
Lord Townshend appointed Col. DesBarres to be the governor of the new colony on Cape Breton Island.
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 Encyclopedia: Thomas Townshend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Henry TOWNSHEND was born in 1537 in Of, Ludlow, Shropshire, England.
Thomasine TOWNSHEND was born in 1539 in Ludlow, Salop, Eng..
Bridget TOWNSHEND was born in 1547 in Raynham, Norfolk, Eng..
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 Lord Sydney - Thomas Townshend 1733-1800
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, 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.
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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 Sydney, Australia
The largest city in Australia, Sydney is centered on the southern shore of Port Jackson (an arm of the Pacific Ocean).
Sydney's metropolitan area ranges from the Hawkesbury River in the north to beyond Botany Bay in the south and from the Blue Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.
Sydney also has several fine museums, notably the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the Australian Museum (featuring exhibits on natural history), the Church Missionary Society Aboriginal Art Gallery, the Geological and Mining Museum, and the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences of the Powerhouse Museum.
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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 third Viscount, John, became Earl Sydney in 1874.
John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney (1805-1890) (became Earl Sydney in 1874)
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 Lord Sydney Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Townshend Thomas 1st Viscount Sydney
Townshend, George, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquis Townshend
Townshend, George, 4th Viscount and 1st Marquis Townshend (1724-1807), English soldier and lord lieutenant of Ireland.
Townshend, Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend of Raynham (1675-1738), British statesman, prominent under King George I. Born at Raynham, Norfolk,...
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 Encyclopedia: Viscount Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sydney is also known for the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
Sydney also has been home to many visual artists, from the lush pastoralism of Lloyd Rees 's depictions of Sydney Harbour to Jeffrey Smart 's portraits of bleak urban alienation.
Sydney is also home to several large ethnic communities throughout the greater metropolitan area, and a significant gay community who host the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras along Oxford Street.
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 biology - Sydney, Nova Scotia
Sydney has been undergoing an economic decline for several decades as the local coal and steel industry underwent significant changes.
Today, Sydney is facing a significant challenge in the cleanup of the Sydney tar ponds, a tidal estuary contaminated with a variety of coal-based wastes from coke ovens that supplied the steel industry.
Sydney is home to a growing tourism industry based on cruise ships to its extensive port facilities.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1345
     Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney was born on 24 February 1732/33.
She married James Thomas Stopford, 4th Earl of Courtown, son of James George Stopford, 3rd Eal of Courtown and Lady Mary Scott, on 4 July 1822.
Sophia Mary Townshend, daughter of John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney and Hon.
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 Earl Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
Townshend was the grandson of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, from whom the Marquesses of Townshend descend.
In 1874 his grandson, the 3rd Viscount, was created Earl Sydney, of Scadbury in the County of Kent, but all the titles became extinct upon his death in 1890.
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 Viscount Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Viscount Sydney is a title in the Peerage Great Britain created in 1789 to Thomas 1st Baron Sydney (the Barony having been in 1783).
The third Viscount John became Sydney in 1874.
John Robert Townshend 3rd Viscount Sydney (1805 - 1890) (became Earl Sydney in 1874)
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 Sydney, Nova Scotia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sydney is the home of the University College of Cape Breton (UCCB), which is the only university on the island.
The local government is attempting to shift the city's failing industrial economy to one based on a diversified mixture of initiatives including, but not limited to, tourism.
Future offshore petroleum and natural gas exploration in the Laurentian Basin, southeast of Sydney, has been touted as a potential economic catalyst for the industrial Cape Breton area.
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 Sydney Canada Canada - Cruise Reivews.com
Climate and current weather information for Sydney Canada: The climate is at its best from the end of May through mid October.
Sydney, located on the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island in north-eastern Nova Scotia, Canada.
Sydney is located in a major coal-producing region, and is a major industrial area.
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 Early settlement (from Sydney) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Located on Australia's southeastern coast, Sydney is the country's largest city and, with its magnificent harbour and strategic position, is also one of the most important ports in the South Pacific.
It lies on the southeastern arm of Sydney Harbour at the mouth of the Sydney River, on eastern Cape Breton Island.
Sydney was established after the American Revolution dispossessed Great Britain of its American colonies, and Great Britain wanted another remote settlement where surplus convicts...
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 Info and facts on 'Earl Sydney'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1874, the 3rd Viscount was created Earl Sydney, but all the titles became extinct upon his death in 1890.
Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (additional info and facts about Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney) (1733-1800)
John Robert Townshend, 3rd Viscount Sydney (1805-1890), created Earl Sydney in 1874
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 Sydney, Nova Scotia - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Sydney is a city in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Since 1995, Sydney has been amalgamated into the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) with other municipal units in Cape Breton County.
Some of the other initiatives include Information Technology, light manufacturing and development of Sydney's harbour facilities.
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 MSN Encarta - Townshend, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney
Townshend, Thomas, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800), English politician and statesman.
Townshend was a member of a prominent English family; he was the...
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 JOHN ROBERT TOWNSHEND, 3rd Viscount Sydney, 1st Earl Sydney
Happily there are even yet remaining some offices to which such hard conditions are not attached, and it is fortunate for the Liberals that they are able to provide for so eminent a partisan as Lord Sydney the highly appropriate post of Chambrelain.
The statesman who takes charge of the moral and material toilette of the fair has a stupendous duty to discharge; and Lord Sydney has been at least equally successful in defining moral and material limits from the one extremity in vogue on the stage to the other which is affected in the palace.
The Sydney Townshends are now traced through the Marsham-Townshend family.
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 Viscount Sydney - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Viscount Sydney - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Viscount Sydney contains research on
Viscount Sydney, Viscounts Sydney (1789) and Earls Sydney (1874).
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1905
She married John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney, son of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney and Elizabeth Powys, on 13 April 1790.
She married John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney, son of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney and Elizabeth Powys, on 27 May 1802.
She married, firstly, George Augustus Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Marquess of Hastings, son of Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings and Flora Campbell, on 1 August 1831.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1836
He was the son of Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney and Elizabeth Powys.
He married, secondly, Caroline Elizabeth Letitia Clements, daughter of Robert Clements, 1st Earl of Leitrim and Elizabeth Skeffington, on 27 May 1802.
Child of John Thomas Townshend, 2nd Viscount Sydney and Hon.
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 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Charles Townshend
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 viscount sydney
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 Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney (1733-1800), Statesman
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